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AP
Volume 123 • No. 5 • Whole No. 1,300
May 2009
445 Women & Stamps — Festival for
Philatelic Women & New APS Stamp Albums
448 Achtung Panzer! Panzer Division Feldpost
by Rene Chavez Detailed resource and introduction to
collecting and researching World War II German Panzer Feldpost.
457 2009 APS Election of
Officers — Directions for voting.
458 2009 APS Election Candidates’
Statements
467 Duties of Directors & Officers
of the American Philatelic
Society — Taken from the APS
Bylaws.
468 Bylaws of the American Philatelic
Society (APS) — Proposed Revisions
(January 2009).
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437 Collecting Coast to Coast — Wayne L. Youngblood
The Oddballs of Bull’s-Eye Collecting — “Challenging to
collect” cancels don’t always translate to “Expensive to collect.”
504 Worldwide in a Nutshell — Bob Lamb
Republic of Finland — Governed first by Sweden for nearly
700 years and then by Russia for another century, Finland
finally declared its independence in 1917.
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In the Know: High Technology
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Index of Advertisers 501
Letters to the Editor 418
Membership Report 496
President’s Column 412
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president’s column
by wade saadi
The American Philatelic Society
— Today & Tomorrow
As you may already be aware, Executive Director Peter Mastrangelo will leave
the APS on April 30th. Deputy Executive Director Ken Martin will then assume
the role of Interim Executive Director. Indicated in my letter below to
the membership that was posted to the APS website on March 25, the Society is facing
many difficult financial challenges.
I wish Peter the best in his future endeavors and will miss him in the days to come.
However, in this time of transition, we must keep our eyes on the goal and focus on the
processes to achieve those targets.
As your Society makes these difficult decisions and transitions, we need your continued support. You can
help by renewing your APS membership at the patron or supporting level when you receive your dues renewal.
You can also help by recruiting a new member or by making a donation to the Campaign for Philately. Participate
in the President’s Challenge and help the hobby grow: www.stamps.org/Videos/index.htm
I pledge my best to accomplish the new APS Vision. Please make this pledge with me.
AmericAn PhilAtelic Society
93 80th Street • Brooklyn, NY 11209-3511
Phone: 212-513-7777, ext. 109 • Fax: 212-513-1975 • wade@pencom.com
Wade E. Saadi
President
March 25, 2009
Our Society is a dynamic one, and as such, it needs to respond to the forces that affect it. In November 2008 the Boards approved
2009 budgets that included use of $442,000 in unrestricted donations. 1 The Boards agreed that this was not prudent
and that they would establish a process to address the long-term issue. In January 2009 the Boards approved the creation of
a Long Range Planning Committee to investigate and recommend plans of action to the Boards.
Using most of our donations to balance this operating deficit is imprudent. To correct this situation, we must bring spending
in line with income. Otherwise, we cannot continue as a viable organization responsible to our membership.
In February, the American Philatelic Society (APS) board and the American Philatelic Research Library (APRL) board
authorized the formation of a Long Range Planning Committee (LRPC) to investigate and recommend plans of action to
them. The committee comprises:
APRL President — Ken Grant
APRL Treasurer — Jack Flannery
APS President — Wade Saadi
APS Treasurer — Dan Walker
APS Immediate Past President — Janet Klug
Executive Director (CEO) — Peter Mastrangelo [Will be leaving APS on April 30th 2009]
Deputy Executive Director (COO) — Ken Martin
Controller (CFO) — Rick Banks
John Barwis
1 Financial Information can be found at http://www.stamps.org/almanac/alm_Reports.htm
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The LRPC has met several times since and has reported to the boards accordingly; the LRPC acting as a facilitator. It is the
LRPC goal to provide the APS/APRL boards with recommendations on reducing the operating budget deficit by April 30th
2009, and a 20-year plan that will be presented by StampShow in Pittsburgh. While understanding that it is impossible to
“see” that far ahead, it is better to think and plan for long-range contingencies than to simply take things as they come.
Going forward, the APS/APRL shall provide for balanced operating budgets, so that cash in equals cash out.
The plan shall be based on realistic assumptions rather than hope; the logic here is that if tactics yield better results than
expected, they will not have the negative ramifications of coming up short on the forecast. The APS/APRL can no longer
afford to maintain a “wait and see” way of thinking.
The plan shall rank-order existing programs based on comparisons of net costs and value to members, so the APS/APRL
boards can get a rough idea of cost per member using the service and the significance of the service to the membership.
This is being done so that we know which of our services are cost effective and which need to be retooled.
The APS/APRL Campaign for Philately will be re-energizing our fundraising efforts and need your continued generous
help and support. Donations of any amount are important and appreciated. We will also be ramping up solicitations of large
donations, grants, multi-year pledges, and bequests. If you can help, please contact me — wade@pencom.com
The trend of membership loss needs to be abated and APS/APRL need to use modern technology (the new APS website
to be launched by Stampshow, YouTube, Facebook, etc.) to the maximum to retain our current members and attract new
members. Diversifying our membership gives us the best shot of growing our membership and a diversity committee is in
the process of being formed.
Lastly, the boards will be reviewing all of the physical assets of the APS and APRL to see how they may best be utilized.
Four years ago the APS Board of Directors approved the below Vision for the APS Strategic Plan (in regular text). To ensure
a strong, bright future for the APS and APRL, the boards are considering adding the italicized sentence:
APS Vision — The American Philatelic Society encourages and promotes the philatelic arts as endeavors that are relaxing,
mentally stimulating and historically and culturally important; and is the national center in serving and supporting members
who engage in philatelic and related arts. ἀ e APS will achieve its vision in a financially responsible way that exemplifies
good stewardship of the members’ investments in the Society, and ensures the Society’s long-term continuity.
We have a lot of work to do, to get to where we need to be, but I am confident of the outcome — a financially secure Society
in which all members will continue to take pride. I believe it in my heart and feel it in my bones.
Respectfully,
Wade E. Saadi
Staff Spotlight
Lisa Clemson, Staff Accountant
“I’ve enjoyed meeting many of our members and also
recruiting some new ones. ἀ e APS is a terrific place to
work, and we really are a family here.”
I came to the APS as a business student in high school
in May1980 for a two-week on-the-job training program
we were required to do our senior year. I saw “American
Philatelic Society” among the options we could choose for
training, and asked my instructor about it. He said it was
all about stamp collecting, and that it would be a good
place to go, with many different things to do there. I said,
“Send me there.” Later, one week before graduation, APS
Sales Division Director Gordon Wrenn called and asked
me if I wanted a job. I started the week
after I got my diploma, and the rest is
history!
I started in Sales Division as a clerk,
doing whatever was asked of me. In
those days, we had no computers and
everything was processed by typewriters
and addressograph plates. A
couple of years later I became Gordon
Wrenn’s secretary, and that’s where I stayed until March
of 1987 when I moved over to the Accounting Department,
where I’ve been ever since. My first duties were to
process all Sales Division income, all American Philatelic
Research Library income and expenses, all fund-raising
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income, and to send out receipts for donations. We did
not have accounting software back then, so I posted all
the monthly accounting transactions to the general ledger
by hand. Every entry in the four-inch-thick ledger book
had to be added by calculator. The balance at the end had
to equal zero or you had to look at all your postings to be
sure your debits and credits were correct and add again.
Have I mentioned how much I love accounting software?
I was promoted to head bookkeeper — or Staff Accountant,
as it is referred to today — in 1993, and that’s
where I’ve been ever since. Among my responsibilities
are maintaining the three major checking accounts (APS,
Sales Division, and Internet Sales Unit); processing all
Society disbursements; generating the AP display billing;
and keeping track of payments. I also process all income
and balance the accounts for the two national-level stamp
shows that the APS organizes each summer and winter,
the next one being StampShow 2009 in Pittsburgh. I
pretty much process all other income and maintain the
day-to-day operation accounts except for the Sales Division
and APRL. I’ve also been given the wonderful opportunity
to travel to two or three World Series of Philately
shows a year for the past four or five years to represent the
APS. I’ve enjoyed meeting many of our members and also
recruiting some new ones. The APS is a terrific place to
work, and we really are a family here.
I have been married to my husband Kirk for almost 23
years. We bleed Penn State blue and white and have season
football tickets. I am also a New York Mets fan, which
makes baseball season interesting in our house since my
husband is a Philadelphia Phillies fan! We enjoy traveling,
and we try to go someplace new every year. I collect cookbooks
and love cooking and am lucky to have a husband
who isn’t afraid to try new foods or anything I make.
Log On Today!
www.stamps.org
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letters to the editor
My Views Exactly
Terence Hines’ “The Culture of Complaint
in Stamp Collecting” (March AP,
page 196) expressed my views exactly. I
always read the Letters to the Editor first
and never ceased to be amazed at the
agony that many collectors experience in
the course of pursuing this incredibly interesting
hobby. Complaints, when there
is so much to savor and enjoy. And next,
I always read the wonderfully informative
articles by fellow Wisconsinite,
Wayne Youngblood.
John Pare
Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin
Rude and Insulting
I thought the article by Terence
Hines, titled “The Culture of Complaint
in Stamp Collecting,” was rude
and insulting to stamp collectors. I am
surprised that ἀe American Philatelist
would publish such an article.
While I agree with the writer that
many of the complaints by some stamp
collectors are superfluous and petty, to
call these collectors in a published article
whining, moaning, selfish, out of touch,
bad tempered, cranky people who sit
around looking for things to complain
about, and “We all know the type” is, in
my view bad tempered itself.
If anyone is to blame for this complaints
“culture,” it is that stamp publications
take the trouble of publishing an
unending series of such complaints in
every issue. Enough is enough. I suggest
that we call a moratorium on publishing
petty complaints and, in its place, emphasize
the fun and educational benefits
of our hobby.
Herb Meyers
New Rochelle, New York
I Like Us
I am shocked and amazed that Terence
Hines would lower himself to mix
with others of us in this stamp collecting
hobby, or that he would take the time to
bother writing on the premise that he is
going to change any of us.
Not that I haven’t been called worse,
but in the course of Hines’ diatribe, he
calls us stamp collectors (or at least some
of us) whiners, complainers, cranky,
trivial, quitters, selfish, cheap, gripers,
moan(ers), bad tempered, fussy old
coots, anti-social, nasty, and ill-tempered.
WOW! He missed calling us fussbudgets,
curmudgeons, geezers, and
grumpy old men.
But he’s not far off. Here is the truth
as I see it:
1. Yes, we are a bunch of whiners,
because we have to make critical
decisions about minute details in
order to have the best collection
we can. We look at two stamps and
decide if we want the one with the
straight edge or the pin hole, the
one with a heavy hinge remnant
or with a heavy cancel. We look at
centering first when purchasing
even new stamps at the Post Office,
and ask for a different copy of the
one we were given isn’t up to our
standards. And we absolutely HATE
pen cancels! Hines may see us as
whiners, but we have spent our lives
being discriminating collectors. We
are not shy in speaking our minds
when things aren’t as we hoped they
might be.
2. Yes, we are a group of old coots,
mostly men (my apologies to
those who aren’t old, or men).
Demographic studies have
ascertained that we are an aging
hobby. And if Hines wants to
criticize those of us who ARE active
in the hobby, he may succeed in
getting a few more of us to quit, but
he won’t recruit younger enthusiasts
to our passion with a letter like his.
3. Yes, we are anti-social. On the
Myers-Briggs personality scale, I’m
sure that most of us will score as
“introverts,” as we are energized by
sitting with little pieces of paper and
catalogues and albums all day long
and loving it. An extrovert who is
energized by being around other
people would have gone nuts in our
hobby long ago, and given or sold
his collection and used the profit to
have friends in for a party! It’s no
wonder stamp clubs don’t attract
new members. Introverts don’t join
clubs, and if we do go, the other
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introverts are too shy to talk to us,
anyway.
4. Yes, we are cheap. Most of us worked
hard all our lives, and are happy
to have some time to get involved
in our stamps now that we are
retired and out children are grown
and out of the house, and, by the
way, if we are still married, she is a
saint for putting up with us. And
we know the cost of building our
collections. It’s not just the stamps.
It’s the albums, the acid-free pages
and plastic sheet protectors, the
mounts, the annual catalogues, the
tongs, the perforation guides, the
color chart, stronger and stronger
magnifying glasses as the years pass,
the periodical subscriptions, not to
mention “shipping and handling”
added on to everything that comes
to the house (and don’t they know
we can really see just how much
they paid to send it to us?). And we
know that we (or our heirs) will be
lucky to get half the “actual cash
value” the catalogues list when we
wish to sell, with nothing added
for the pages, mounts, or other
expenses that go with preserving
our precious little darlings. We
save where we can, so that we can
continue to enjoy this hobby we
love.
5. Yes, we are complainers. Hines is
critical of us for being this way
(isn’t it strange, he writes a rant of
complaint about complainers!).
But we know our hobby. We have
definite ideas about how we would
like our world to operate, and we
hope that by expressing ourselves
out loud or in print, others might
join our cause and help to make
the world and our hobby a better
place to spend our time and money.
Does that make us so bad that we
have to read a diatribe about who
we are and how we behave in our
own organization’s journal? Perhaps
Hines should be reprimanded for
not being nicer to us.
If you don’t fit into my categories,
please don’t get mad at me, or even that
complainer Hines. It takes all kinds
to make the world go round, and one
could do worse than spend a life associating
with stamp collectors, even if we
are sometimes whining, anti-social, old
coot, cheap complainers. I happen to like
us, and am pleased to associate with us!
Rev. Robert L. Anderson
York, Pennsylvania
Living Green
Matt Todd’s letter in the March issue
of the AP (“Old Faithful,” page 200),
regarding almost inevitable damage
to stamps on Express Mail and Priority
Mail envelopes, raises another point:
they are designed so that the envelopes
themselves cannot be reused. In this age
of recycling and “living green,” this is certainly
undesirable also. An examination
of about half a dozen varieties of mailing
envelopes and boxes in my local post office
turned up only one marked “Made
with recycled materials.” All the rest said
only “Please recycle.” It seems to me that
the Postal Service needs to look at their
policies in this area, to bring them in line
with current philosophy.
George Ashman
Palmerton, Pennsylvania
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Mending Tape
I just finished reading the article
“Yes, There Are Some Rules” by Ada Prill
(March AP, page 222) and agree with
everything that is said, especially the use
of “Scotch Tape.” However, the statement
“Tempted to fix a small tear on a cover
with tape? Don’t do it!” could have been
expanded. This statement should only
apply to using “Scotch Tape,” as there is
a tape that can be used without a problem.
I collect and research stampless
folded letters, which are letters that were
written before the issuance of postage
stamps. A letter was written and folded
in such a way that the contents were not
visible. It was then sealed with a wax seal,
and taken to the post office for mailing.
When letters that have been folded for
over 150 years and are then unfolded
to read, you may discover seam splits,
tears, and pieces missing. You can’t do
anything about the missing pieces, but
you can do something about the tears
and seam splits.
I use an archival mending tape to
repair these problems. It is very thin,
extremely transparent, non-yellowing,
has a neutral pH, and is available from
University Products in Massachusetts. I
have had no problems with repairs that
were done 20 years ago.
Of course, it is up to the collector, to
repair or not repair, but paper that is 150
years old can be quite brittle, and I do
not want to cause more damage to the
letter.
Ken Hall
Las Vegas, Nevada
Thanks for the Help
Thank you APS for educating this
new collector. Well, not really a new collector.
I collected stamps in the forties
when for fifteen cents at the dime store
you could buy a used Columbian. I’ll be
eighty next year and thought it was time
to return to the stamp book.
The article on rules by Ada Prill was
real helpful. Thanks Ada.
Wayne Youngblood’s article on SOTN
was great. After reading Wayne’s article, I
brought out the used stamps and this is
what I found (Scott 899). I have no idea
if it has any value or not. Thought your
readers might like
to see one that looks
perfect to me.
Richard G.
Hutchins
Fowlerville,
Michigan
Bull’s-Eyes
A few comments on Wayne Youngblood’s
column in the March AP, “Bull’s-
Eye Cancel Collecting (page 216). As an
old timer from the post office, started in
1946, I recall with horror learning about
canceling stamps with the town and
date.
Naturally, being the junior man, I
was the hand stamper, taking care of the
non-machinable pieces. Not knowing
any better, I just wacked away and hit the
stamps with the town and date part as
well as the defacer. My boss came over,
gave me hell, and told me to “never” use
the town and date part of the handstamp
to cancel the stamps. My “nobody told
me” excuse didn’t work. In those days,
learn by making a mistake was how you
learned in the old P.O. I also remember
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when they came out with roller cancellers
and changed the rules to allow the
town and date to show on stamps.
I also recall when in stamp magazines,
especially club bulletins, would
show you how to make a gauge out of
cardboard to correctly place a stamp on
your mail piece so that the town and
date hit the stamp exactly and you had a
real “socked on the nose” stamp.
I am not a collector of these items,
but I agree that the new computer-generated
postmarks are for the birds. It
was always fun to get a postmark from
Greasy Elbow or High Stakes. I have a
friend who always mailed his Christmas
cards from a town that matched his last
name, which I thought was real cool, but
no more for him.
Jim Luddy
Swansea, Massachusetts
More To Discuss
Marty Bratzel’s article in the March
AP (“A Modern Forged Postmark,” page
238) provides more to discuss than
meets the eye. First, a user of a Canadian
postage meter who swaps between the
Canadian die and a U.S. die defrauds the
U.S. Postal Service of postage, because
all the postage logged on the Canadian
meter goes to Canada Post. Next, we
must question how the user managed
to swap dies. A postage meter is supposed
to be locked against tampering.
Only the Canada Post or a Pitney Bowes
representative would be allowed to have
a key. Next, the meter shown was a U.S.
Official Mail die. This Canadian company
was fraudulently representing itself as
a branch of the U.S. Government. That
$300 penalty statement would be applied
to each instance of use. The greater part
of the story would be to determine just
how they got their hands on this U.S. Official
meter die.
I would think the U.S. Postal inspectors
would come down on this company
pretty hard for all of these offenses before
they got around to complaining about
the forged canceller or the date issues. I
wonder how it happened that someone
didn’t get a very large fine or even end up
doing some jail time.
David Crotty
Editor, Meter Stamp
Society Quarterly Bulletin
Covington, Kentucky
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‘Forged Postmark’ —
Author Update
Re: “A Modern Forged Postmark”
(March AP, page 238).
Permit me to update two bits of information.
While my article was in the
queue awaiting publication, the postage
rate for a letter from Canada to the United
States increased (January 2009) to 98
Canadian cents, but the Goods and Services
Tax (GST) decreased (January 1,
2008) from 6% to 5%. Even with the significant
fluctuation in the currency exchange
rate over the past several months,
it remains considerably less expensive to
post letters in Detroit.
Marty Bratzel
Windsor, Ontario
A Proof? An Essay?
This message is in response to Ray E.
Carter’s “Is It a Proof? Is It an Essay? in
the March AP (page 214).
For many years, before retiring, I
worked as a graphic designer for a global
corporation. And now I’m still used as
an active consultant for the same organization.
Since the conception of the
computer, there have been revisions
in the titling of the parts of the printed
piece. The computer has allowed the
“shipping” of “PDF (Portable Document
Format) Proof ” copies to the customer
via e-mail. These files cannot be edited
by the customer unless he/she has a full
version of Adobe Acrobat®. And we, as
designers, do not want these files edited.
We like the customer to make a “Hard
Copy Proof,” mark it up and return the
copy to the designer.
PDF files also allow the shipping of
readable documents between Apple and
PC systems. The use of Adobe Acrobat
(PDF) Reader® is available to all computer
owners as a free download from
Adobe at www.adobe.com.
This method of proofing continues
along the full production line until the
printer needs the actual live graphic files.
The live files allow the printer to print
the final product from a more adjustable
software program. And these files can
be uploaded to the printer’s “FTP (File
Transfer Protocol) Site” via the Internet.
Or the commercial printer could print
the final piece from a high-resolution
PDF file. But most do not prefer this
route. With this system, there is no need
for personal contact with the printing
vendor.
So, the words we are now using are
“PDF Proof,” “Hard Copy Proof,” “Press
Proof,” “Production Proof,” and “FTP
Site.”
Keep up the good work.
Bob Stolarz
Hamilton, New Jersey
Beethoven Connection
It is quite rare to run across classical
music-related articles in ἀe American
Philatelist. The last article on classical
music was published exactly one year
ago: my own “Mysterious Conductor
on a Japanese Stamp” (March 2008,
page 234). I was, therefore, pleasantly
surprised to see Michael O. Nowlan’s
“Finding a Beethoven Connection in the
United States and Canada” in the March
AP (page 242).
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There were nine illustrations in Mr.
Nowlan’s article. Every one of them was
explained in both caption and text, except
for the “Wills’s Cigarettes” card
showing a portrait of Beethoven (page
242). I was baffled by this omission —
whatever the reason might be.
The Beethoven cigarette card in
question was published by Wills’s Cigarettes,
W.D. & H.O. Wills in Bristol and
London; the Imperial Tobacco Co. Ltd.
of Great Britain and Ireland. It was from
a series titled “Musical Celebrities” in
two sets. The first set was published in
1912, the second in 1914; each set contained
fifty musical celebrities such as
composers, conductors, opera singers
and instrumentalists. A brief biographical
sketch was printed on the back of
each card along with the serial number
and name of the tobacco company. The
Beethoven card was no. 5 in the first set.
David Shaw
Boulder, Colorado
Anti-Semitic Currency
I really enjoyed Ralph Harpuder’s
article, “My Parents’ Wedding & Rabbi
Joachim Prinz,” in the March AP (page
232). It is always interesting when one
can tie family history to the broader story
of world history. I would like to make
a point of clarification to this otherwise
excellent article. Mr. Harpuder states on
the first page that “A good example is the
anti-Semitic currency issued in August
1923. On the back of the 100 million
marks is a verse that translates as ‘The
Jews took our Gold, the Silver and the
Bacon, and left us with this Garbage.’”
On page 234 he provides an example
of the front and back of the 100 million
mark bill. The front of the bill is authentic
as it was issued by the Reich Bank
(Germany’s central bank). However, the
original note was blank on the back. The
German Government of 1923 was commonly
referred to as the Weimar Republic
and inflation was rampant. This note
was literally not worth the paper it was
printed on. The Weimar government
was not particularly anti-Semitic. The
verse that Mr. Harpuder refers to was
printed on the 100 million mark bill by
the National Socialist Workers Party, or
Nazi Party, as a propaganda technique.
The verse also urges the German people
to follow Hitler.
In 1923 Adolf Hitler was an obscure
regional politician, and his Nazi party
had little influence outside of Bavaria.
However, the use of the 100 million mark
note is an example of the sophisticated
propaganda machine that the fledgling
party was developing in its virulent anti-
Semitic campaign. Why did the German
government leave the back side blank?
Probably to save ink and speed the printing
process. This economy effort unwittingly
provided Hitler and the Nazi Party
with a cheap propaganda tool. I am not
a serious collector of German inflation
currency, but I do note that some other
bills were printed on both sides. I wonder
if this was to prevent further use of
the bills by the Nazis?
George M. Lauderbaugh
Jacksonville, Alabama
May 2009 / Americ An Phil Atelist 433

Great Story
My wife is a nanny of a seven-yearold
boy with Asperger’s Syndrome. He
is highly functional and actually quite
brilliant, but he does have his problems.
Recently he started collecting stamps off
envelopes. I have a great many duplicates
which I don’t need, and have started giving
him some. He is delighted and is
starting to collect stamps in earnest. After
talking with my wife, it became clear
that he needed a stock book to organize
his stamps. I happened to have an empty
stockbook that suited his immediate
needs, which I gladly gave to him. I also
posted on an e-list a request for people
to send me stamps to give to this young
collector. In response, I received in the
mail a large manila envelope filled with
thousands of stamps. My wife passed
them along to him in a shoebox. He
was delighted to no end. His mother
has pitched in to help him organize the
stamps by country, and I’ve ordered a
new and larger stockbook for him, which
he will now need, plus I also ordered a
magnifying glass. My wife helps him,
too. It is so heart-warming to see this
young boy take to stamp collecting with
such verve and enthusiasm. I remember
how much I loved stamp collecting when
I was his age. And his temperament and
emotional profile is suited to this great
hobby, as he loves to see and organize all
sorts of different designs and countries.
He loves geography, too, and stamp collecting
is a perfect way for him to learn
more about the world we live in. I just
wanted to share this great story with everyone.
Richard St. Clair
Cambridge, Massachusetts
When To Soak
As members of the McAllen Stamp
Club, we, too, have been following and
have been affected by the increased use
of paper without a water soluble layer,
which some of the contract printers retained
by the United States Postal Service
have been using for stamp production.
Though many of us cut our stamp
collecting teeth by soaking and sorting
used stamps (a practice many of us still
find to be a pleasing passing of time), it
appears that paper for stamp production
without a water soluble layer will remain
a fixture of at least some of the future
USPS stamp production programs, if
for no other reason than it increases the
likelihood that uncanceled stamps will
not be reused, thus aiding the USPS in
Yet, the challenge for
stamp collectors of used
stamps remains: when
to soak? when not to
soak?
their revenue enhancement and protection
efforts.
Yet, the challenge for stamp collectors
of used stamps remains: when to
soak? when not to soak?
We applaud the editors of Linn’s
Stamp News for the J.A. Watercutter’s
updates, published periodically in their
publication. Though this feature allows
for a collector to know about relatively
current stamp issues and their soakability,
the first appearance of U.S. stamps
without a water soluble layer, excluding
the 1976 Weather Vane issue, is now several
years old. Several foreign countries
are also jumping on the water insoluble
band wagon, as again noted by Royal
Mail’s announcement of the introduction
of elliptical cuts into some of their
definitive stamps.
We feel that the time has come for
the stamp hobby to devise a symbol that
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could be incorporated into the stamp
catalogues, such as is used now to indicate
blocks, used, unused, etc., so that the
knowledge of stamp issues with no water
soluble layer can be captured for future
reference. This would allow stamp collectors
to avoid damaging used stamps
by attempting to soak them in the future.
Perhaps a symbol for soakable stamps
can also be devised at the same time. This
would allow catalogue editors to declare
in their catalogues that as of a specific
date, unsoakable stamps before that date
are denoted with the unsoakable symbol,
and all soakable stamps after that date
are denoted with the soakable symbol.
We are asking the editors of Linn’s
Stamp News and ἀe American Philatelist
to coordinate efforts in soliciting symbol
ideas from their respective memberships
that could then be submitted to the
editors of the Scott Catalogues for use in
their publications.
Members of the McAllen Stamp Club
Edinburg, Texas
Editor’s Note: Readers — How about
it? We look forward to receiving your suggestions.
What Fun!
I just joined the APS and have been
exploring the APS website. I found The
First Fifty Women on United States
Stamps. What fun! I normally make my
own pages from the blank Scott pages
but quickly put the blank sheets in the
printer for some of your pages offered.
Now, I am off on a quest to fill the First
Fifty Women on United States Stamps
and learn more information about those
noted. What a wonderful idea on APS’s
part. Thanks for the idea of putting those
together...terrific...terrific...terrific!
Who knows, maybe I’ll see U.S.
space quests, transportation, or inventors
next. There are so many ways you
could go with these. Talk about regenerating
interest in collectors! Thanks again
for such a grand idea.
Terry D. Wright
May 2009 / Americ An Phil Atelist 435

collecting: coast to coast
by wayne youngblood
The Oddballs of Bull’s-Eye Collecting
The odd ducks of the bull’s-eye
collecting world include unusual
cancel types, fancy cancels, pictorials,
slogans, town names, humorous
SOTN cancels, late uses, and items bearing
bull’s-eye cancels that were never intended
to be canceled. Some of these are
found in the traditional SOTN format
(city, state, and date), others are not; but
all are forms of bull’s-eye cancels.
Within the areas of both handstamped
and machine cancels, there are
unusual cancellation devices that were
created for specific purposes and happened
to become SOTN examples located
later by collectors. Some of these, such
as “money order branch” and “foreign
mail” markings are not all that uncommon.
Even New York and Washington,
DC, bull’s-eyes on foreign stamps (at the
point of their entry into the U.S. mail
system) or military mail cancels (APO
and FPO) are unusual, but not that hard
to find; however, other special cancels,
including paquebot markings as bull’seyes
are quite scarce.
Unusual bull’s-eye cancels include devices such as
money order branch, Army Post office, foreign mail,
Paquebot and others.
Well-struck fancy cancels have been a mainstay
with collectors since long before the terms “bull’seye”
or “SOTN” came into existence for their
current meanings.
Although there have been machine
cancels available in United States possessions
for decades, I’ve rarely seen SOTN
examples, other than those illustrated
from Ponce, Puerto Rico, and Pago Pago,
Samoa. One of the more unusual (but
not terribly scarce) U.S. bull’s-eye cancels
that can be found is a metal die-hub
cancel with the slogan “Say No to Drugs”
embedded in the city-state portion of the
dial.
Well-struck fancy cancels have been
a mainstay with collectors since long
before the terms “bull’s-eye” or “SOTN”
came into existence for their current
meanings. Classic-era stamps with nearperfect
strikes have consistently brought
significant premiums over
other used stamps for more
than a century. These cancels
include pictorials, letters,
grids, targets, geometrics,
and many others.
But the classic era isn’t
the only time period to feature
unusual SOTN cancels.
The early twentieth century
brought in both the era of
metal die-hub cancelers and
fourth-class post office fancy
cancels (usually on registered
covers). When struck
just right, pictorials and machine cancels
both can yield highly collectible items.
The proliferation of pictorial-type
metal die-hub cancellations of the last
half of the twentieth century brought
with it a number of what I feel are modern
SOTN pictorial fancy cancels that
will be prized by collectors of the future.
The cancels are common, but the SOTN
placement of many is not.
Somewhat related are bull’s-eye strips
of stamps. These are strips featuring a
full SOTN single, along with a complete
slogan or pictorial killer. Although most
are found with metal die-hub cancels,
they occasionally show up either as
handstamped items or as private mailer’s
postmarks. In some cases these strips
pay a specific postal rate, in others they
are part of a larger rate. Either way, finding
such strips intact, readable and wellcentered
is challenging to say the least,
although they won’t break your budget
when you do.
Town names also can be collected
as SOTN examples. It this case, these
are SOTN cancellations that bear a full
town name, but no date. Examples of
nineteenth-century town names and
comparable examples from the twentieth
century (including parcel markings)
are illustrated.
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Bull’s-eye cancellations from U.S. possessions, such as Ponce, Puerto Rico, or Pago
Pago, Samoa, are fairly difficult to find.
Not particularly scarce,
but unusual, is the
1990s-era “Say No to
Drugs” SOTN cancel.
Well-struck, clear SOTN fancy cancels on nineteenth-century
stamps have been popular since long before bull’s-eye
cancel collecting was a specialty.
Even twentiethcentury
fancy
cancellations can
be found on stamps
on or off cover. In
this case the cancel
is large enough it
requires two stamps
to show fully as a
SOTN example.
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Using old stamps on mail to other collectors is not a new
thing, and bull’s-eye cancels can be found occasionally to illustrate
this. When a number of stamps are lined up to make a
more recent rate, the odds of a SOTN cancel increase. Such is
the case with two stamps illustrated together: a Scott 213 (issued
in 1887 but used seventy years later, in 1957), and a Scott 803
(issued in 1938 and used fifty-five years later, in 1993).
Some of the most entertaining types of bull’s-eyes, however,
include humorous, promotional and non-cancel cancels. For
example, a stamp with part of a pictorial slogan machine cancel
with a winged Pegasus horse struck perfectly the 1958 Overland
Mail issue to give one of the stagecoach horses wings, and a 23-
cent Mary Cassatt stamp with a SOTN panda pictorial cancel
that leaves her with an odd face indeed!
A 1975 illegal use of an illustration cut from an auction catalogue
(a bottom plate strip of 3-cent 1861 stamps) not only successfully
passed through the mail, it also inadvertently picked
up a perfect SOTN strike from Hawley, Pennsylvania, on the
left “stamp.” The stamp area of the cover is shown. Similarly, an
illustration of a $2.60 Zeppelin and a label cut from the Spanish
set of 1992 Columbian souvenir sheets each picked up a perfect
SOTN cancel in 1992 and 1995, respectively. Other items, such
as the various promotional labels shown (including an APS label),
were never intended to be canceled but sport perfect bull’seyes
nonetheless!
My favorite in this category, however, is a multicolored label
created for the 1901 Pan American Exposition that also bears a
1901 Exposition Station cancellation.
There also are bull’s-eyes that aren’t — in the true sense of
the word — bull’s-eyes. These are non-official markings that appear
on genuine stamps. They are, however, quite fun to collect.
For example, shown are four stamps. The top two have a
Strips of stamps that have fully struck cancels are highly
collectible and attractive.
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Metal die-hub machine cancellations brought with them the ability to create a new type of pictorial SOTN cancel.
By the 1960s and later there
were a number of pictorial
machine cancels that can
be found perfectly struck on
stamps off cover. Will these
be prized as fancy cancels by
collectors of the future?
A selection of SOTN nineteenth-century citystate
bull’s-eyes with no dates.
Because many bull’s-eyes are created by
collectors, and because collectors like to use
obsolete stamps, items like these extremely
late-use bull’s-eyes occasionally show up.
When struck just right, SOTN
cancels occasionally have
humorous results, such as the
winged stagecoach horse or
panda-faced Cassatt.
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An illustration from an old auction catalogue, cut out and used illegally, ended up
becoming a very interesting bull’s-eye item!
Other stamp reproductions,
including a Zeppelin and
Columbian, bear perfect bull’seye
cancels.
perfectly centered marking that reads “IN
U.S. NOTES.” One has a “31” in the center,
the other a “32.” These were applied by a
rubber stamp and were, as I recall, originally
contained as philatelic souvenirs in a
publication by the name of U.S. Notes. Similarly,
the lower-left item also is a philatelic
souvenir — one that I created a number of
years ago when a group of collectors visited
the offices of Linn’s Stamp News in Sidney,
Ohio. I created the mock bull’s-eyes and affixed
them to participants’ name tags. The
lower-right item is a near-perfect strike of
“Keatskotoos,” Nebraska, the only Pawnee
Indian U.S. post office. The only problem is
that no genuine strikes from this post office
are known. I created a latex cast from
the original cancellation device, which was
housed in a museum at which I worked
early in my career.
One of the most interesting recent
bull’s-eyes that never were includes three
Presidential series stamps (the 1-, 2- and
3-cent denominations), applied to the title
pages of paperback editions of Lawrence
Block’s first three Keller novels; Hit Man,
Hit List, and Hit Parade. John Keller, the
main character, is a stamp-collecting hit
man. The stamps, each hit with a “Keller”
cancel, are dated 2008 in Roman numerals
as a special philatelic edition. An autographed
title page from Hit Parade is illustrated.
A special multicolored label for the
Pan-American Exposition received
a 1901 Exposition Station bull’seye
cancel.
All kinds of charity labels and promotional items are placed near stamps on envelopes.
These items (including an APS sticker) frequently end up with SOTN cancels.
Although each of these items appears to have a nice bull’s-eye cancel, not one is
genuine.
A 2-cent Prexy received a perfect
SOTN “Keller” cancel at the hands
of stamp-collecting novelist
Lawrence Block.
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Women & Stamps
Festival for Philatelic Women & New APS Albums
O
n May 28–31, 2009 the Festival for Philatelic
Women comes to the American Philatelic Center
in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, with twenty-two handson
seminars, “how-to” demonstrations, workshops, and
other practical programs to help women get the most from
the stamp hobby. The Festival for Philatelic Women is a WE
event — Women Exhibitors (WE), Affiliate No. 260 of the
APS — co-sponsored by the American Association of Philatelic
Exhibitors and hosted by the APS and American Philatelic
Research Library.
In conjunction with this event, the American Philatelic
Society has created two new mini-albums: ἀ e First Fifty
Women on United States Stamps and Fifty Years of Women
on U.S. Stamps, 1958–2008. These mini-albums were created
for free use in the public domain, with generous permission
from Scott Publishing Co. to use its copyrighted catalogue
numbers. Each is available as a pdf file that can be viewed
or downloaded and printed at www.stamps.org/Education/
edu_AlbumPages.htm. For more information and a registration
form, visit www.aape.org/Weweb.asp.
The First Fifty Women on United States Stamps
by Fred Baumann
Between 1998 and 2008 — the most recent decade for
which we have records — the U.S. Postal Service issued 155
adhesive stamps that pictured or honored women and their
accomplishments. But it was not ever thus.
In the eighty years between 1873 and 1953, the United
States Post Office Department included or alluded to women
on the three postal cards and fifty-two stamps. Fully twentythree
of these are goddesses or allegories, including the eleven
designs used on seldom-seen newspaper and periodical
stamps of 1875 and 1895, four personifications of Liberty,
and three representations of the magnificent 15,000-pound
bronze Statue of Freedom that crowns the Capitol Dome in
Washington, DC.
Six stamps — more than 10 percent of the total, including
the only U.S. dollar denominations ever to depict a fleshand-blood
female — portray a Spanish monarch, Queen
Isabella I of Castile, patron of Columbus. The 1893 $4 value
on which her cameo and that of the explorer appear is the
key stamp in the first U.S. commemorative set, the finest examples
of which have sold for as much as $20,000.
Of the rest, fifteen pay tribute to historically noteworthy
women: Martha Washington (three times), Pocahontas,
Molly Pitcher (by overprint alone), the tragic Virginia Dare
and her mother Eleanor, Susan B. Anthony, Louisa May Alcott,
Frances E. Willard, Jane Addams, Clara Barton, Betsy
Ross, Moina Mitchell, Juliette Gordon Low, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Carrie Catt.
The remainder are stamps I collectively characterize as
“She, the People.” Little-known or unnamed, they huddle
with their spouse and child as the Pilgrims land at Plymouth
Rock, await rescue by the National Guard, or help their
brother plant a tree on Arbor Day. One is a working woman
marching proudly with the men for the National Recovery
Act in 1933, elder sister of the Women in the Armed Services
of 1952. Many are generic, but some are remarkably moving.
Among them are the mother and daughter looking on
in terror as the fallen horse that drew their covered wagon
is put out of its misery on the 1898 10-cent Hardships of
Emigration stamp. For any woman, this would surely be the
most dramatic and depressing American commemorative of
this eight-decade era were it not for one other: the Gold Star
Mothers issue of 1948.
Some stamps that might be here are not. The backs of
at least two onlookers in the 1939 Baseball Centennial issue
may be girls, but I excluded them as androgynous window
dressing. Similarly, that may be the silhouette of a woman in
a bonnet in the wagon on the 1947 Utah Centenary issue —
or it may be a bent shovel. There is a woman, with a bonnet,
and a swaddled infant pressed firmly to her bosom, on the
1948 Fort Kearny issue. However, the four men on the stamp
have faces, the two oxen have faces, the horse has a face, the
bird has a face, and even the herd dog has a face. But neither
the woman nor her offspring have faces — apparently the
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engraver couldn’t find the time — so I didn’t include them,
either. These stamps don’t honor women.
I deliberately depicted the modern reissues of the Columbian
and Trans-Mississippi stamps on these pages because
their bright white paper makes the designs easier to
see. The rare 1875 Newspaper & Periodical stamps on page 4
of the album appear through the generous courtesy of Robert
A. Siegel Auction Galleries of New York.
I hope that reflecting on the selection of images here
will stimulate your thinking and your imagination as it did
my own. For a different, more wide-ranging appreciation of
women on U.S. stamps, visit the Smithsonian National Postal
Museum’s Arago project’s “Women on Stamps, Part I” at
http://tinyurl.com/c2tjm6.
Fifty Years of Women on U.S. Stamps, 1958–2008
by Bonny Farmer
While it might seem as though designing album pages to
honor women who have appeared on United States stamps
during the last fifty years would be an enormous task, it may
surprise many collectors to learn that the pickings are actually
rather sparce — especially as regards individuals. There
are generic “women in the background” stamps (see 1973
Posting a B roadside, American Bicentennial, Scott 1477);
stamps that honor “American women” (1964 Homemakers
issue, Scott 1253); and stamps that commemorate a symbolic
woman (see the numerous Olympic Games issues). These are
all important icons for the collector of Women on Stamps,
but the fact remains that, without the annual Christmas
stamp featuring the Virgin Mary (beginning in 1966), stamps
that honor individual women are thin on the ground.
The album pages include all U.S. stamps from 1958–2008
with images clearly identifiable as women or girls (although
some are very small), all stamp topics from that period specifically
related to women and/or women’s concerns, the occasional
stamp generically related to male and female concerns,
and all stamps created to honor individual women.
Some years there was no choice: only a single stamp related
to women appeared in 1959, 1963, 1965, 1967, and 1977.
Other years only two stamps appeared, neither of which
honored a specific woman (except for the Virgin Mary).
Apart from these years, the annual stamp highlighted on
these pages simply reflects one woman’s choices of the most
interesting stamp or most admirable individual honored in
a given year. Other stamps issued for that year are listed but
not illustrated. Occasionally, with an individual who has
been honored with more than one stamp (for example, Eleanor
Roosevelt appears three times), the final choice of which
stamp to include has been governed by how many relevant
stamps appeared that year, and not necessarily the best and/
or favorite stamp image.
Within the broad theme of “Women on U.S. Stamps,” a
number of specialty collections could be formed: women in
literature, women in sports, women in civil rights and/or
women’s rights (these were often one and the same concern
in the nineteenth cenutry), women in politics, women in
science, women in entertainment, women as religious icons,
or even symbolic female figures (such as the “Columbia” or
“Spirit of Freedom” images not included in this overview,
with the exception of 1958). But overall, for me, the fascination
lies in examining the evolving role of women on United
States stamps.
Although symbolic or allegorical figures began to appear
on postal cards in 1873 (1-cent Liberty, Scott UX3) and on
newspaper stamps in 1875 (e.g., 3-cent Statue of Freedom,
Scott PR10), it was forty-six years before a recognizable
woman appeared on a U.S. postage stamp: Queen Isabella of
Spain (1893). And it was another nine years before the first
American woman — Martha Washington (1902). The first
First Lady was followed in 1907 by Pocahontas, but an individual
woman was not again honored until Martha made a
repeat appearance in 1923 (Scott 556). It is telling that, even
within the last fifty years, the first four years of stamps in this
album do not show an identifiable woman. Eleanor Roosevelt
appears in 1963, on the only stamp that year to include a
representative female. We’ll have to wait and see what 2009
brings; as of the end of April, only one issue includes women:
Civil Rights Pioneers (Scott 4384a–f), souvenir sheet released
February 21, 2009, whose commemorative images show
Mary Church Terrell, Mary White Ovington, Daisy Gatson
Bates, Fanny Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, and Ruby Hurley.
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Achtung Panzer!
Panzer Division Feldpost
by Rene Chavez
World War II German Feldpost (fieldpost) mail is
a large and varied field with many specialities to
appeal to the collector. This article is a brief introduction
to one of these specialties: collecting and
researching World War II German Feldpost used by
soldiers assigned to Panzer (tank) formations, primarily
Registered Feldpost. First, it is important to
give a brief description of the Panzer Divisions that
existed during the war.
Panzer Division Formation
During the 1920s and 1930s many countries looked at
tanks as an untried weapon, and paid little attention to their development and possible
deployment in future conflicts. Germany, however, was preparing for a new kind
of warfare known as Blitzkrieg (lightning war), which involved the rapid deployment
of large numbers of tanks, motorized infantry, and air force. Interestingly, during the
early Polish and French campaigns of 1939–40, the German formations included a
greater number of tanks than the actual Panzer Divisions would field later in the war
(the panzer units would not be recognized as independent entities until late 1939). 1
As the war progressed, the overall strength of the panzer formations diminished in
the number of tanks in service, but this loss in numbers was
compensated for by the production of better, more powerful
tanks and the addition of Panzer-Grenadiers (armored personnel
carriers). During the war, the strength of the different
panzer formations can be divided into three approximate
stages:
The first stage began in 1940 with the formation of ten
Panzer Divisions, numbered 1 to 10. Each division included
320 tanks. Towards the end of that year, the number of tanks
per division was reduced to 230. During the early years of
the war the Germans used light Panzerkampfwagen (armored
fighting vehicle) PzKpfw I, II & III model tanks and the medium-sized
PzKpfw IV tank that ran wild through the disorganized
infantries of Poland. 2
During the second stage, which encompassed the invasion
of Russia in the summer of 1941 and the North Africa
campaigns, seventeen more Panzer Divisions were created
Tanks were shown on semipostals issued for
Army Day and Hero Memorial Day in March 1943
(top) and 1944 (bottom).
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Examples of postal cards depicting tanks that were released by the Propaganda Postal Ministry: (top) Panzer IIIs
storming the Russian Steppe; (below) Panzer IVs crossing an icy road somewhere on the Eastern Front.
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Left: Ordinary German Feldpost mailed by a
soldier who was in a Panzer training school.
Note the skull label attached as a seal. This style
of skull was attached to the collar tabs of the
German Panzer tunics. They are quite different
from the skulls known as Totenkopf (Death
Heads) that were attached to the center of the
visor on caps worn by members of the Waffen-
SS.
Right: German propaganda card and the actual
Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Class. When it was
first created on December 20, 1939, this award
was given only to tank commanders, drivers,
gunners, and radiomen. On June 1, 1940, a
Bronze version was created for qualifying
Panzer-Grenadier members assigned to
armored vehicles other than tanks (half-tracks,
assault guns, etc.). Medical personnel who rode
into combat in an armored vehicle to attend to
wounded soldiers and personnel assigned to
armored cars also were eligible to receive the
Bronze Class award.
Regular Feldpost cover mailed by a German soldier assigned to the 15th
Panzer Division, which was stationed in North Africa. The reverse side shows
Feldpost Number “34445,” indicating that he was attached to the 33rd Panzer
Reconnaissance Battalion, 15 Panzer Division.
and numbered 11 to 23. But the number of tanks continued
to be reduced, and by the end of 1941, each
Panzer Division had only 190 tanks of various types.
As the war progressed on the Eastern Front, the
tanks were further reduced in number to approximately
165 tanks per division; however, these Panzer
Divisions became more formidable and
better equipped following the introduction
of the medium-heavy tank the “Panther.”
The final stage began during the fall of
1943 into early 1944 when four more Panzer
Divisions were created, numbered 24 to 27.
However, during 1944 the number of tanks
assigned to each division was drastically reduced
to only 54 tanks. Nevertheless, with
the introduction of the massive German tank
the “Tiger” joining the “Panther,” these divisions
remained a powerful force to be reckoned
with. 3,4
In the spring of 1944 another Panzer Division
was added, 5 reorganized from remnants
of the 16th Panzer-Grenadier Division. It departed
from the usual numbering system to
became the 116th Panzer Division.
In addition to the regular formations, the
Germans also had the following elite Panzer
units:
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• The Panzer Lehr (training) Division was
formed in late 1943 and fought mainly
on the Western Front in 1944.
• The Panzer Division Grossdeutschland,
which was upgraded from a motorized
infantry division in late 1943.
• The Panzer Division Feldherrnhalle,
which was not a full Panzer Division
since it never exceeded regimental
strength in size.
• The Hermann GÖering Panzer Division,
an Air Force infantry unit that was
converted into a Panzer Division.
A final group was the Waffen-SS (Armed
SS) Panzer Divisions, considered political party
units. Seven of these SS Panzer Divisions were
formed separately and commissioned in early
to mid-1943; they were largely better equipped
than their Army counterparts. 6,7
The German Reichspost only issued a few
postage stamps illustrating tanks in action. The
March 1943 and March 1944 the “Army Day
and Hero Memorial Day” semipostals honoring
the German Armed Forces each included a
panzer stamp: Scott B228 (Michel 841) shows a
PzKpfw IV, and Scott B264 (Michel 880) shows
a light-weight PzKpfw III, commonly known
as the Sturmgeschutz (assault gun). Both tanks
have a short, 75mm main gun barrel. The Propaganda
Ministry also released numerous propaganda
postal cards depicting all types of German
tanks in action.
German Feldpost Mail
During the early campaigns of 1937–39, the
German Wehrmacht (Armed Forces) operated
a military mailing system that provided free
postal services within Germany. By September
3, 1939, the expanded Feldpost military mail
system, carrying mail to and from armed forces
personnel throughout the war zone, was placed
in service. Postcards, letters, and newspapers
weighing up to 250 grams could be mailed
free of charge. As of November 1939, packages
weighing up to 1,000 grams could be mailed
at the nominal rate of twenty reichspfennig
(Rpf). 8
Each German military branch had its own
postal administration in charge of receiving
and delivering mail, and these were subordinated
directly to the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
(OKW) (Supreme Command of the
Armed Forces). For Feldpost offices closest to
the combat zones, however, a mobile facility
usually processed mail for all military branches
Table I
A list of Tactical Numbers (“FpA”) with their respective FPN and
Kenn Numbers assigned to Panzer Divisions between 1940 and
1945. 13
Panzer FpA Feldpost — Kenn Numbers —
Div. No. No. 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945
1 81 22979 909 909 909 909 909 909
2 82 35046 135 135 135 135 135 330
3 83 17222 650 650 650 650 650 660
4 84 37311 130 130 130 130 130 762
5 85 30521 778 778 778 778 778 778
6 57 19831 294 294 294 294 294 294
7 58 15035 355 355 355 355 355 355
8 59 27559 548 548 548 548 548 548
9 60 09132 608 608 608 608 608 608
10 90 21630 985 985 985 † * *
11 61 07865 x 433 433 433 433 433
12 2 16277 x 806 806 806 806 806
13 13 08874 x 729 729 729 729 729
14 4 10262 x 828 828 **† 455 455
15 33 05524 x 597 697 † * *
16 16 25537 x 445 445 **† 326 326
17 27 22764 x 263 263 263 263 263
18 88 47400 x 287 287 287 * *
19 19 11324 x 104 104 104 104 104
20 92 47680 x 508 508 508 508 508
21 200 21589 x 615 615 † 793 793
22 140 46216 x 796 † * *
23 128 42550 x x 788 788 788 788
24 40 12654 x 128 ** 184 184
25 87 09209 x x 166 166 166 166
26 93 10194 x x 278 278 278 278
27 127 48484 x x 749 † * *
116 66 13858 x x x x 167 167
Lehr 130 40076 x x x x 730 730
GD 400 42200 x x x x 602 602
Holstein 144 32993 x x x x x 996
Feldhernhalle 160 43121 x x x x x 436
HG 921 L45871 x x x x 822 822
Waffen-SS Panzer Divisions
LAH SS-1 12388 x x x x 235 235
Das Reich SS-2 09600 x x x x 781 781
TK SS-3 32052 x x x x 560 560
Viking SS-5 12106 x x x x 558 558
Hohenstaufen SS-9 08801 x x x x 676 676
Frundsberg SS-10 26310 x x x x 883 883
HJ SS-12 58910 x x x x 833 833
x = not a Panzer unit
* = destroyed, not reformed (10, 15 Africa; 27 Stalingrad)
** = destroyed and reformed (14, 16, 24 after Stalingrad)
† = half a year only
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Typical official Registered
Feldpost, which includes the
following requirements: (1) The
word “Feldpost” had to appear
on all letters or parcels — either
handstamped, handwritten,
or typed. (2) The unit official
seal, with or without its
feldpost number. (3) The word
Einschreiben (Registered). (4) A
label in the form of a conventional
German Registry Label, but with
the capital R followed by the word
Feldpost in small letters and
the Registry number below. The
label also includes space for the
Kenn number, which was either
handstamped or handwritten on
the label. (5) The final, and most
important, piece of information
on the cover is the dated
cancellation, which also displays
a three-digit Kenn number.
Table II
Panzer Corps postal facilities with corresponding Kenn postal
code and the years of operation.
FpA Tactical Feldpost — Kenn Numbers —
No. No. No. 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945
403 3 25239 x x † 101 101 101
404 4 17363 x x x x x 398
414 14 15709 x † 542 x 154 154
424 24 19539 x x † 773 773 773
439 39 32482 x x † 119 119 119
440 40 30177 x x † 201 201 396
441 41 08315 x x † 953 943 316
446 46 08276 x x † 835 835 835
447 47 06043 x x † 642 642 642
448 48 18220 x x † 126 126 126
456 56 40690 x † 462 462 462 462
457 57 41212 x x † 217 217 217
458 58 04440 x x x x 281 281
476 76 21630 x x x x 273 273
x = not a Panzer unit † = half year only
involved in the area. In order to preserve the secrecy of troop
movements by concealing the name of the unit and its location,
each division was assigned a five-digit code number,
which served as its postal address. These five-digit numbers
were referred to as Feldpost Numbers (FPN). By the end
of 1939, the letter prefixes “L” and “M” were placed before
each FPN to designate divisions belonging to the Luἀwaffe
(Air Force) and Kriegsmarine (Navy), respectively. A further
coded breakdown by military unit was achieved by employing
letter suffixes “A” through “E” at the end of each FPN. 9
The letter “A” generally signified a Headquarters Company;
the others stood for line companies. The sequence of an FPN
does not necessarily mean that the units were located in the
same area. FPNs were sometimes reassigned to other units,
particularly when a unit ceased to exist. Identification of the
units from their FPN became possible only after several issues
of the Feldpost Directory were captured. They are available
on microfilm from the National Archives in Washington,
DC. 10
Feldpost mail was usually stamped with a military
Feldpost cancellation and the Dienstsiegel (official
military unit seal). These seals were usually circular
and included the national emblem and the inscription
“Briefstempel-Dienststelle Feldpost Nr.” or some variation
thereof. Each Command postal facility normally
was provided with two types of official seals. One type
contained the complete name and number of the unit
(referred to by collectors as an “open address”) for use
on internal mail within the Wehrmacht. The other type
contains just the Feldpost number address for use on
non-official mail.
Normally, Feldpost mail could not be dispatched
or received by civil post offices. If a soldier wanted to
send mail through a civil post office, full postage was
collected.
Panzer Feldpost Mail
While an ordinary German Feldpost cover can be
recognized as being of Panzer origin by the process of
decoding the five-digit FPN and checking the Order of
Battle, there is no assurance that the letter was actually
processed by the Panzer Division post office. The excep-
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tion is Official Registered Feldpost, which
displays the sending post office’s Kenn
number (a three-digit code).
A Feldpostamt (FpA) (Feldpost Office
Number) is a tactical number that was used
mostly for mobile postal facilities close to a
combat zone or for certain permanent facilities
located to the rear of the combat.
Each Army, Corps, Division, and Independent
Brigade had its own FpA, and each
FpA was assigned a three-digit code number
between 100 and 999, called a Kenn.
This code number was used for routing Official
Registered Feldpost mail. The Kenn
number was applied in the Feldpost cancel
and on the Registered label. Provisions for
official registered and insured mail were
offered for a small postal charge. Express
mail from the front required a 40-reichspfennig
fee. Feldpost express mail had to be
delivered by special messenger. 11
The Panzer Armee Oberkommando
AoK (Panzer Army Headquarters) controlled
the Panzer Divisions in the field. Panzer Army
Headquarters directed the operations of two or more
Panzer Corps, while each Panzer Corps controlled two
or three Panzer Divisions. These divisions fought under
the Army Command but were responsible to the
Waffen-SS and the Luftwaffe for administrative matters
and supplies. Army Corps post offices can be identified
by their having Tactical Numbers (FpA) in the 400 series.
Panzer Army Post Offices can be identified by this
FpA number, or under the FpA designation “FpLst”
(Feldpost Distribution Center), or by an “APM” (Army
Postmaster Office) number, the latter being the scarcest
of the three. Only a few APM offices existed. 12
In addition to collecting actual examples of Panzer
Division feldpost mail and the few German stamps depicting
tanks, there is wonderful collateral matter to be
found relating to armored vehicles, particularly the numerous
propaganda cards showing tanks in action that
were produced by Germany during the war. I hope this brief
article will stimulate your interest not only in Panzer Division
Feldpost but in all military-related fieldpost mail.
Endnotes
1. During the early campaigns in 1939–40, panzer formations were composed
of two panzer regiments attached to German Army units. Each regiment included
two or three panzer battalions with a total of 320 tanks.
2. A German Panzer Division consisted of a panzer regiment, two panzer-grenadier
regiments, and a panzer artillery regiment. It also included an assortment
of battalion-size formations such as motorcycle, reconnaissance, anti-tank, engineer,
and signal units.
3. For more information on German military formations, see Samuel W. Mitcham
Jr., Hitler’s Legions — ἀ e German Army Order of Battle, World War II
(Stein & Day Publishing, 1985). See also, Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., ἀ e Panzer
Legions: A Guide to the German Army Tank Divisions of World War II and ἀ eir
Commanders (Greenwood Publ. Co., 2000).
A late postal cancel Registered Feldpost cover with Kenn number 602,
indicating that it belonged to the elite Army “Grossdeutschland” Panzer
Division.
Table III
Panzer Corps post offices that were assigned to Waffen-SS
Panzer Divisions. Note that the Feldpost Amt and Tactical
Numbers have a different pattern from their Army Panzer
Corps counterpart. The 4th and 7th SS Corps had the same
Kenn Number assigned, but with different FpA and Feldpost
numbers. 13
FpA Tactical Feldpost — Kenn Numbers —
No. No. No. 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945
SS101 1 SS 59414 x x x x 792 792
SS102 2 SS 22620 x x x x 764 764
SS103 3 SS 58808 x x x x 799 799
SS104 4 SS 09508 x x x x 886 886
SS107 7 SS 43100 x x x x 886 886
x = not a Panzer unit
4. To view a wide assortment of German tanks, visit the Panzer Museum website
at www.panzermuseum.com.
5. Two additional Panzer Divisions, the “Holstein” and “Muenchberg,” are
known to have been formed a few days before the fall of Berlin; however, they
existed in name only.
6. For a detailed history on Waffen-SS panzer formations, see Bruce Quarrie,
Hitler’s Teutonic Knights: SS Panzers in Action (PSL Publishing,1986).
7. The Waffen-SS panzer units were still under the German Army Command,
but not under Army administration. It is interesting to note that some of these
Waffen-SS units, like the “Wiking” Division, had a large percentage of non-
German personnel from Holland, Norway, Denmark, and some Flemish men
from Belgium.
8. For more information relating to Feldpost privileges, see Ben Beede, “Fee
Privileges in Military Mail Service,” ἀ ird Reich Study Group (TRSG) Bulletin
No. 15 (April 1969). The Third Reich Study Group is a member of the German
Philatelic Society. Information on its activities and other publications can be
found at www.gps.nu/.
9. As indicated, a five-digit FPN was assigned to units of the German Armed
Forces. However, because of the frequency of troops being refitted, withdrawn,
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Registered Feldpost cover that was mailed by the Panzer Corp postal facility.
Note the Kenn number 462 written on the Feldpost Registry label and in the
Feldpost cancellation.
disbanded, etc., the FPNs were always being changed. This elaborate coding
system required a means by which postal workers could determine the proper
routing of mail with the five-digit FPN. This was supplied by the Feldpost Directory,
which was Top Secret and had a limited distribution of individually numbered
copies. These Feldpost Directories also were being revised constantly.
10. The Third Reich Study Group has published a twelve-volume computerized
listing of German FPNs: Projekt Himmelblau; A Computerized Listing of German
Feldpost Number Assignments (1978–80). Another
helpful TRSG publication is Norbert Kannapin’s
Die Deutsche Feldpost: Organisation und Lokalisation
1939–45 (Biblio Verlag, 1979), in three volumes.
11. In 1977 the Third Reich Study Group published a
cross-reference guide to the FpA and Kenn numbers
assigned to feldpost offices of the German Combat
Divisions.
12. Information relating to Panzer Division Post Offices
also can be found in “Panzer Divisions,” TRSG
Bulletin X (1976), by R.J. Houston.
13. Cross-reference tables relating to FpA Numbers
and Kenn Numbers assigned to Panzer Division
Registered Feldpost Offices also can be found in Gianluigi
Soldati’s “German Military Panzer Feldpost
Offices, Second World War,” ἀ e German Postal Specialist
(April 1989). The American Philatelic Research
Library has a copy of his 1990 exhibit on the same
topic.
14. For a comprehensive listing of all Feldpost numbers
assigned to Waffen-SS formations, I recommend
James Lewis’s Waffen-SS Feldpost Numbers and Order
of Battle (Third Reich Study Group, 1984).
The Author
Rene Chavez is a logistics engineer working for the U.S.
Department of the Navy. He specializes in military postal
history.
Table IV
A list of the most significant Panzer Army Post Office Facilities (Armee Post Meister) (APM). The Army
Post Offices were recognized under the following German designations: Armee Briefstelle (ABSt) (Army Letter
Office), Feldpost Leitstelle (FpLst) (Mail Routing Facility), and FeldpostAmt (FpA) (Main Post Office). They also
included Branch Post Offices (Zweigamt) (Zw) and Special Use facilities (zur besonderen Verwendung) (zbV).
Post Office Tactical FPN — Kenn Numbers—
No. No. 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 Early Name
FpA 419 2 12541 x † 845 845 845 845 Pz Gruppe 2
FpA 422 1 02266 x 401 401 401 401 401 Pz Gruppe 1
FpA 473 4 01420 x 158 158 158 158 158 Pz Gruppe 4
FpA 415 3 27659 x 365 365 x x x Pz Gruppe 3
zbV 416 3 34880 x x 509 x x x
zbV 492 1 02266 x x x x 401 401
zbV 495 3 27659 x x x x 365 365
FpA 639 5 14881 x x 420 † x x Pz AOK Afrika
Zw 639 5 14881 x x † 550 x x Pz AOK Afrika
FpA 686 5 06677 x x † 538 x x Pz AOK Afrika
FpA 762 5 44777 x † 282 † x x Pz AOK Afrika
FpA 791 5 47294 x x 212 † x x Pz AOK Afrika
APM PzAOK 2 03400 x x † 845 845 845
APM PzAOK 1 24000 x 401 401 401 401 401
APM PzAOK 3 32100 x x † 645 645 645
APM PzAOK 4 11266 x x † 158 158 158
APM PzAOK 5 40299 x x x x x 775
ABSt 590 1 24450 x x † 443 x x Mobile P.O.
ABSt 501 4 26700 x x † 496 496 496 Mobile P.O.
FpLst 504 1 36286 x x 695 571 571 x
ABSt 529 2 13769 x x x x 690 x
ABSt 538 3 11729 x x x x 470 x
x = not a Panzer Unit † = half a year only
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2009 APS Election
of Officers
Ballot for the
2009 APS Election
(Candidates are listed as
they appear on the ballot.)
For President
Wade E. Saadi
For Board of Vice Presidents
(Candidates Run as a Group of ἀ ree)
Nicholas A. Lombardi, Steven J. Rod,
and David L. Straight
For Secretary
Steve Zwillinger
George F. Dekornfeld
For Treasurer
W. Danforth Walker
Douglas N. Clark
For Director-at-Large
Michael D. Dixon
Denise L. Stotts
James C. Cate
Joann Lenz
Wayne L. Youngblood
Robert P. Odenweller
For Trustee
American Philatelic
Research Library
Larry Nix
Peter D. Martin
American Philatelic Society officers and an American Philatelic
Research Library trustee will be elected by APS members using the
ballot included with this issue of ἀe American Philatelist. After
reading the candidates’ statements, members are asked to remove
the ballot and return envelope from this magazine, read the voting
instructions, then mark their choices and return the ballot in accordance
with the instructions. Ballots must be received by noon
on June 6, 2009.
Newly elected officers will be installed at the APS General Meeting,
August 8, 2009, at StampShow in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. All
candidates listed here have received the required seconding nominations.
They are listed in order in which their names appear on the
ballot, which was determined by a drawing.
Voting Instructions
• Please use the ballot and
Note: In order for a
accompanying return envelope ballot to be valid, the
bound in this issue of the
voting member’s name
magazine.
and APS number must
• Vote as indicated on the ballot. be entered in the spaces
Space is provided for alternate provided on the tab on
choices for officer positions. the outside back flap of
• Do not sign the ballot itself or the mailing envelope.
make any other identifying
mark on it.
• Do not enclose any other
correspondence with your ballot.
• Please DO NOT detach the tab from the return envelope.
After the APS verifies each voter’s membership status, the tab
will be removed and the unopened ballots turned over to the tabulators
under the direction of the Board of Elections.
To be counted, your ballot must reach the Board of Elections no
later than noon, June 6, 2009. Do not send the ballot to APS Headquarters.
Ballots not properly mailed to the Board of Elections at
the address given here will not be counted.
Send ballot to:
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P.O. Box 55
Bellefonte, PA 16823-0055
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2009 APS Election
Candidates’ Statements
Candidate Statements and the representations contained therein are solely the
opinions of the candidates and do not necessarily reἀect the opinions of the American
Philatelic Society, the American Philatelic Research library, their respective governing
Boards or management. Candidates are listed by office alphabetically.
For President
Wade E. Saadi — New York • APS 145318
The most qualified candidate for APS President will
possess the diverse skill sets to best serve the Society and
its membership. The Society is facing many challenges that
require a President with:
• Leadership experience
• The ability to think creatively
• The resolve to make tough decisions.
With a four million dollar annual operating budget, millions
of dollars in assets, and a full time staff of 35 employees,
the APS is much more a business than a local stamp club. In
these very tough economic times,
it is even more essential that its
President be familiar with budgets,
finance and real estate matters,
for the well-being of the Society
and in order to provide you,
the members, the best and most
cost effective services.
The three most important issues
currently facing the Society
are membership growth, a balanced
budget and fund raising.
These are daunting tasks and we
must recognize them as such, but
not be deterred from implementing resourceful solutions
that will keep our hobby and our society healthy and vigorous.
The APS must:
Initiate creative programs to promote, recruit and retain
membership in the APS.
The APS shall provide for balanced operating budgets, so
that cash in equals cash out. Assure current members receive
the highest value for their membership dollars.
Seek new income sources that will enable APS to maintain
a balanced budget.
My combination of business and philatelic management
experience coupled with previously demonstrated leadership
commitment to the hobby makes me ideally suited to
continue as your President.
Personal
I am a businessman and leader of several diversified companies.
Collecting interests span from classic US through
plate number coils; both an exhibitor and philatelic writer
and hold several leadership positions in organized philately.
I was born and raised in New York, where I reside with
my wife of 36 years, Gail. Our son Wade Jr., his wife Andrea
& daughter Sophia live nearby.
Philatelic Leadership Experience
American Philatelic Society: President (2008-2009).
Chair - Board of Vice Presidents (2007-08). Board of Directors
(2005-2009). Chaired the APS Executive Director
Search committee, the Membership Promotion/Recruiting
Committee; introduced the Chapter Outreach program.
Smithsonian National Postal Museum: Chair, New Initiatives
Committee (2006-Present). Chaired Arago® Committee
(2004-06) and helped conceive the Arago® project.
Council of Philatelists (2003-Present). Council Operations
Committee (2003-Present). Conceived and implemented
complete restructure of the Council of Philatelists.
US Philatelic Classics Society: President (2007-Present).
Vice President (2004-2007) and Director (2002-Present).
The Society has had positive membership growth and profitability
since 2004. Also serve as ἀ e Chronicle 1847 Section
Editor since 1997. Awarded Chase Cup ‘97 for a 3-part article
in American Philatelist.
Collectors Club (New York): President (2005-2008) and
Vice President (2003-2005). Had overall responsibility for
operations and finances of the Club.
World Stamp Show — New York 2016: President of New
York Philatelic Exhibition, Inc. (2005-Present) Led the effort
to secure NYC as the site for the next US International Philatelic
Exhibition in 2016.
458 Americ An Phil Atelist / May 2009

Professional Business & Leadership Experience
Corporate: 1973–Present, Pencom Systems Inc. Founder,
President and CEO of this computer services company. Matured
the company into a 600-employee conglomerate, having
offices in nine states and Canada. Spun off division and
led it to public offering as a NASDAQ listed stock; served
as Chairman of the Board and CEO. Corporate finance and
governance is part of my everyday work. Entrepreneur of
the Year Award®, 1996 in NYC, the Ernst & Young award for
technology.
Real Estate: 1984–Present, over 20 years experience as a
licensed real estate professional. Syndicated several real estate
investments; managed several full and partial building
rehabilitations; own and operate a management company
and a full service real estate office.
Please vote for me
Having worked closely with people my entire life, as both
a leader and a follower, I understand motivation, and how to
tweak performance or empower broad based change. As a
consensus leader, I believe a decision is best arrived at if all
parties involved understand and appreciate the viewpoints,
irrespective of their position on the issue. The APS is at a
critical juncture in its existence, where its leader must be the
owner of certain management talents and a personality that
can inspire others to the tasks at hand. I am that person.
I pledge to you to do my very best for the American Philatelic
Society, using all of my abilities. Please cast your vote
for me in this issue of the American Philatelist.
Nicholas A. Lombardi
New Jersey
APS 165290
For Board of Vice Presidents
Nicholas A. Lombardi, Steven J. Rod, &
David L. Straight
We are seeking reelection to a second two-year term as
your Board of Vice Presidents (BVP). With the tragic death
of President Nick Carter, there was a change in the make-up
of our BVP. Former Vice President Wade Saadi was elected
President and Nick Lombardi
was nominated and confirmed
to take Wade’s position as the
third member of the BVP. His
experience in so many different
aspects of our hobby resulted
in a seamless transition and the
Board continued its work without
interruption.
We believe the variety of
experiences from our first term
will enable us to serve the Society
in the most effective and
efficient manner possible. On
your behalf, we have met every
60 days to fulfill our mandate
as the disciplinary body of the
Society. In this capacity, we
have adjudicated more than
two dozen cases involving
both allegations of member
misconduct as well as the admissibility
of new members.
We have dutifully fulfilled
our responsibility to review
all cases brought before us.
In each case, we listened, explored
all aspects of each person’s
story, and gathered as
much relevant information as
possible in order to arrive at
an accurate assessment of the situation and an appropriate
resolution. We are pleased to have resolved a number of cases
to the satisfaction of both parties without having to take
any disciplinary action whatsoever. We have gone “the extra
mile” to learn from the cases that we have heard by recommending
changes in APS Headquarters procedures and by
suggesting steps that both members and dealers could take
to avoid problems in the future, such as to reducing all agreements
to writing.
In addition to our responsibilities
as APS Vice Presidents,
each of us have continued to
serve in leadership roles in a
variety of stamp organizations
and societies. We are each active
in our local stamp clubs — the
Webster Groves (MO) Stamp
Club, Westfield (NJ) Stamp
Club, and the West Essex (NJ)
Philatelic Society. In addition,
we all serve as officers of our
regional WSP (World Series
of Philately) stamp shows – St.
Louis Stamp Expo and NOJEX.
David serves on the National
Steven J. Rod
New Jersey
APS 117153
David L. Striaght
Missouri
APS 177213
Postal Museum Advisory Council and established the annual
Postal History Symposium in partnership with the National
Postal Museum. Steven is a member of the Council of
Philatelists at the National Postal Museum and Vice President/General
Exhibition Chairman for World Stamp Show
2016. Nick is president of the United States Stamp Society
and a member of the Board of Governors of the Collectors
Club (NY). We also have many years of experience leading a
variety of projects for the APS membership. David and Steven
have served prior terms on the APS Board and Nick is
Co-Chairman of the Stamp Theft Committee.
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Our professional backgrounds have also contributed substantially
to our ability to fulfill our Vice Presidential duties.
Nick has spent thirty-six years in federal law enforcement.
He had been an IRS special agent for twenty-eight years and,
since retirement eight years ago, has been a consultant to a
number of federal agencies. Since 1980, Steven has been an
executive director of a not-for-profit 501(c) 3 organization
and since 1995 has served as personnel and management
consultant to a group of 150 of these agencies. David has
three decades of experience in academic libraries, including
provision of library services to remote users.
As fellow collectors, the three of us represent the broad
range of collecting styles and interests which are reflected
within the APS membership. Our individual collecting habits
and interests are quite diverse and they have enabled us
to bring a variety of viewpoints to the table when dealing
with both the disciplinary and general APS issues that have
confronted us.
In asking for your support, we pledge:
TO continue to represent your best interests when
reviewing disciplinary cases as your Board of Vice-
Presidents and to disseminate information on “best
practices” when engaging in philatelic transactions.
TO continue working aggressively with the APS staff,
the Board of Directors, and the Society’s many
volunteer leaders to ensure that the APS maintains
the strongest membership base possible, particularly
by finding new members who may not be aware of
the value that membership in the APS will afford
them.
TO seek, promote, and help facilitate partnerships with
such collaborators as the Smithsonian’s National
Postal Museum, public TV, and postal authorities to
further our Society’s educational mission.
TO continue our support of the Campaign for Philately
and assist in every way possible to reach its
fundraising goals.
TO encourage the solicitation of all opinions during
Board deliberations on every issue and seek input
from every member who would like to have his/her
voice heard.
TO remain deeply committed to sound financial
planning, balanced budgets, and regular review of
our strategic planning and thinking.
For Secretary
Geroge F. Dekornfeld — New York • APS 180251
Institutional memory is critical for the smooth and effective
operation of any organization. Minutes taken need to be
accurate and permanent records of the activities and actions
of the Executive Board, serving as reminders of what has
taken place (and what hasn’t). Realizing that this position is
highly task-orientated, I have
volunteered to run for Secretary
of the APS.
Owning a successful dental
practice since 1989, I am well
versed in the need for keeping
detailed and accurate records.
Professionals are called upon
to keep records showing what
occurred from the outset to the
outcome of any situation. Both
philately and dentistry are very
task-based processes that require
organization and attention to detail. I offer my experience
in both as a candidate for this position.
My memberships include the APS (since 1996), USPCS,
USCC, Empire State Postal History Society, AAPE, RPA,
and VSC. I’ve served as ESPHS Treasurer since 2006 and am
a regular contributor to their journal.
I am a frequent exhibitor having won gold and ‘best of
show’ on the local level; on the national level I’ve worked
my way up to vermeil, receiving several society awards. My
collecting interests include NY State Postal History, US, GB,
Hungary, China, Austria, Hunting & Fishing Revenues,
and World-Wide Classics.
Here’s the bottom line: as cliche as it may sound, my
only purpose in running for position of Secretary is to give
something back. There have been countless occasions where
I have been mentored and helped out by society members
and staff in my collecting pursuits. I’ve also been fortunate
enough to be able to pass on some of the knowledge gained
to others. I want to do more, and this is why I’ve thrown
my name into the hat. Further, as a potential new face in
the national sphere of organized philately, I’m hoping I can
bring some new ideas with me should I be elected, especially
regarding openness, membership retention/expansion, and
services utilization. Our APS is intimately connected with
the future of philately: I want to be sure our hobby thrives
and is available to future generations of collectors.
It is with this statement that I respectfully request your
vote for the position of APS Secretary.
George F. DeKornfeld
For Secretary
Steven Zwillinger — Maryland • APS 173946
I am Steven Zwillinger and I am running for Secretary
of the APS. The APS Secretary has two major sets of responsibilities:
To keep accurate and permanent records for all of the
regular and special meetings of the Society and of the Board
of Directors, and to attest legal documents including charters
for chapters and certificates for life members
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These duties touch every
APS member. Frequent, useful
and targeted communication
efforts — using as many communication
processes as possible,
beyond the innovations of
the past, must be a characteristic
of the next elected board.
I am committed to providing
the membership with a
record of outcomes of Board
decisions as well as the context
under which the issue was considered.
I will work to ensure that every action taken by the
Board should be transparent so the membership knows the
consequences of Board decisions. I see clear communication
skills as a mandatory requirement for the Secretary.
Let’s make reports on Board actions more easily available
— perhaps through more e-mails, an expanded on-line
presence, or real-time web posting.
The Secretary is a member of the Board and has significant
responsibilities in setting policy and direction for the
Society. I have over 25 years experience in Strategic Planning
(what do we want to do and where do we focus resources?),
Performance Management (how are we are doing?) and
Program Evaluation (what have we accomplished?) and
will bring these skills to the Board. My work in creating and
overseeing multi-million dollar contracts has given me skills
in financial planning, cost estimating, and financial management,
the skills needed to meet the fiduciary responsibilities
of a Directors of the Society.
I have collected since 1963 and exhibited since 2005. My
collecting interests focus on India (especially Edward VII)
but like other stamp collectors I keep starting new areas and
have just begun an FDC collection of Scott 938: the 1945
Centenary of Texas Statehood issue. I have published in
India Post, Burma Peacock, Burma Fantail, First Days, ἀ e
Dhow, and ἀ e Philatelic Exhibitor. I am on the Board of Directors
of NAPEX and am an apprentice judge. If you have
questions or wish to see an expanded version of this note,
please write me at steve@zwillinger.org.
For Treasurer
Douglas N. Clark — Massachusetts • 68510
My qualifications include teaching mathematics of finance
at the university level and serving as treasurer of
another nonprofit organization, for which I wrote payroll
checks and filed tax forms. I have considerable experience
serving on the boards of other philatelic organizations, as a
stamp show judge and as a stamp show organizer. As well as
seeing that the financial side of the society is responsibly run,
I intend to make financial reporting understandable to the
membership.
I collect U.S. postal history
and postal stationery and have
thematic and first day cover
exhibits. I am president of the
Postal History Society, Secretary
and journal editor of the
Mobile Post Office Society and
a board member of the American
Topical Association. I am
also a member of the U.S. Philatelic
Classics Society, United
Postal Stationery Society, Confederate
Stamp Alliance, American First Day Cover Society
and American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors. I am a
member of the APS Writers Unit Hall of Fame.
I was deeply concerned, as were many members, by some
of the campaigning and how it was handled in the last APS
election. I hope that by joining the board, I can help to heal
this injury to our society and promote openness and ethical
conduct by the officers.
I have been an APS member for over 35 years and look
forward to taking a serious role in serving the society. Please
help me achieve this goal by seconding my nomination and
voting for me in the election.
For Treasurer
W. Danforth Walker — Maryland • 2788-062713
For most of my 38-year membership in the APS, I have
been active in the Society. I am serving currently as APS
Treasurer and actively working to build the financial
strength of the Society for the next 20 years as a member
of the Board and the Long
Range Planning Committee.
I ask for your support to continue
this important effort for
the next two years as your APS
Treasurer.
I started my career as an
accountant in New Hampshire,
migrating to financial and security
analysis on Wall Street
before moving to Washington
DC as a policy and financial
analyst for a member of President
Reagan’s cabinet.
In 1983 I acquired Horace Harrison’s insurance business,
which focused on insuring the stamps of APS members.
Through that connection, I established relationships
with thousands of members, many of whom are friends. The
company expanded and evolved and was sold to a “big” insurance
company three years ago. Now I am an employee of
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the successor company.
Stamps have really been my life. My wife is an avid collector
and APS member who has also served on the APS Board
of Directors.
Goals:
Financial Planning & Budgeting — No more deficit
spending or unbalanced budgets. The APS needs to use its financial
resources more effectively to plan and position itself
as a viable and healthy Society for the long term.
APS Headquarters, Bellefonte — The American Philatelic
Center is a great home for philately. The current financial
challenge of the mortgages and the future resources needed
to complete will take extremely careful long range planning.
The APS and APRL must look at all the options available to
effectively use the APC for Society needs and generate the
maximum returns for space we do not need.
Membership — We need to maximize the use of technology
to provide the services our members want, and use
this technology to retain our current members and attract
new members.
My Experience:
APS Treasurer, 8 years
APRL Treasurer, 15 years
Washington-2006 International Exhibition, Chief
Financial Officer
APS 2003 Luff award – for service to the APS
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
Please vote.
For Director-at-Large
James C. Cate — Tennessee • 150595
I have been an APS member since 1988 with a vast
amount of philatelic experiences dated to 1975. This
includes membership in the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society
(USPCS), U.S. Cancellation Club, Confederate Stamp
Alliance, Chattanooga Stamp
Club, Tennessee Postal History
Society (TPHS), and the
Southeast Federation of Stamp
Clubs. As an exhibitor, I have
twice won a Grand and Gold
Single-Frame Exhibit and
participated in the Champion
of Champions competition
(2007–2008). I have authored
numerous philatelic articles
published in ἀ e Chronicle
(USPCS), Confederate
Philatelist, and Tennessee Posts
of the TPHS. It was a pleasure to share philatelic knowledge
in the presentation of programs at the APS AmeriStamp
Expo (Charlotte 2008), major shows such as Garfield-Perry
(2009), and numerous local APS clubs and chapters over the
years. After college, I served as a Special Agent, U.S. Army
Counter Intelligence Corps with experiences in Counter
Espionage –Soviet (Tokyo, Japan), and Counter Espionage
Special Investigations — North Korean espionage in Seoul,
Korea. Prior to retirement, I spent forty years with four
industrial valve manufacturers and twice headed Sales and
Marketing for two large industrial valve manufacturers.
With philatelic and industrial executive management
experience, I feel these experiences can be of immense
value as a Director-at-Large — APS and specifically to the
APS membership to maintain common sense and sound
financial management practices to enhance the APS in
the future, hopefully get the APS back on the path of a
growth. Your ideas for the betterment of the APS and vote is
requested and appreciated. Thank you for this opportunity
to serve the APS.
For Director-at-Large
Michael D. Dixon, PhD — Oregon • 127513
Now just over halfway through my term as an APS Director-at-Large,
a review of my accomplishments shows that
I have diligently served the membership. I have attended,
either in person or by telephone, each Board Meeting held
since taking office and have voted on numerous motions
brought to the Board; each time
I believe in the best interests of
the membership.
My efforts have focused on
several aspects of APS management:
I served as Chair of a select
committee appointed by the
President to critically evaluate
the 2006 Membership Survey
in order to assist in the development
of midterm and long
range APS Strategic Plans.
Following from my professional
background as an information scientist, I was able to
play a leading role in the evaluation and award of the contract
to revamp the Society’s website.
Experience gained in finding sources of financing for
Washington 2006 has enabled me to significantly contribute
to the Committee for the Future of Philately in its fund
raising activities.
These areas each represent a “work in progress”. For these,
and many other actions being worked on by your leadership,
there are countless incomplete tasks: we continue to work on
a Strategic Plan; despite the hard work by many, the website
is still in development; there is always another lead to a hitherto
unrecognized source of funds.
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The late March 2009 statement by President Saadi addressing
the formation of the APS Long Range Planning
Committee and elucidating the challenges facing the society
in the near, medium and long terms, adds emphasis to
the need for experienced Directors to continue their team
work.
Should I receive your support and be re-elected as a Director-at-Large
of the APS, I shall be able to continue uninterrupted
in each of these endeavors.
For Director-at-Large
Joann Lenz — Michigan • 10577-069566
I am seeking a second term as Director-at-Large to continue
to serve APS. My goals for the Society include: keeping
business of APS open to all members; completing the Match
Factory providing APRL its
permanent home; ensuring
APS is a welcoming organization
serving all, beginners to
long-time collectors; expanding
recruiting and membership
retention efforts; providing a
secure future for the APS by
encouraging and participating
in more aggressive fund-raising
efforts.
I have been an APS member
for 36 years; member of the
original Campaign for Philately Committee, APRL member
and Tiffany donor. I have attended numerous APS Summer
Seminars where I learned from, shared with, and befriended
instructors and other collectors, and made presentations.
Philatelic service includes: chair of the Nicholas G. Carter
Volunteer Awards Committees; secretary of the United
States Stamp Society for thirteen years and a member of the
Board. I have had various leadership responsibilities in the
Plate Number Coil Collectors Club being secretary for four
years and chairing its Ethics Committee. I have written articles
for the US Specialist and contributed material to other
philatelic publications.
As a teacher, I served on major committees developing
curriculum in a school district of 1,100+ teachers and 25,000
students. In the classroom, I coordinated stamp topics with
subject matter and was a Benjamin Franklin stamp club
leader. I will work for the continuation and expansion of the
APS outreach to youth and adults.
My current collecting interests are modern US with a
concentration on the Liberty era, electronic mail, dummy/
testing material, tagging varieties, postal counterfeits, personalized
postage and Dead Letter Office mail. I discovered
the joys of exhibiting starting with one-frame exhibits and
now have a multi-frame exhibit: 6¢ Roosevelt stamp from
the Liberty series.
Some other affiliations include: Virtual Stamp Club,
American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors, EFO Collectors’
Club, Meter Stamp Society, American First Day Cover
Society, Precancel Stamp Society, Auxiliary Markings Club,
US Specialized Yahoo Group, Women Exhibitors, Germany
Philatelic Society, and the International Society of Japanese
Philately.
Active in Internet stamp groups for 20 years, my email
signature is: Stamps are fun, but collectors are the greatest!
I subscribe to that philosophy and hope APS members will
support my candidacy for APS Director-at-Large.
For Director-at-Large
Robert P. Odenweller — New Jersey • 9084-54776
Service to the APS:
Board Member as Director at Large (six years
previously, and currently),
Chairman of Luff Committee (2003–2006),
Delegate to F.I.P. Commission for Traditional
Philately (18 years),
Committee on Accreditation of National Exhibitions &
Judges (CANEJ),
Publications Committee.
Statement: I believe that all
members of the A.P.S. Board
should have deep administrative
experience. These days it is
not enough to be just a collector
or expert or writer, or even
just a good committee member.
The A.P.S. is a corporation with
a substantial annual budget that
requires good business sense.
Although the philatelic side is
needed to see where problems
may lie, being a “good philatelist”
is by itself just not enough.
Besides A.P.S. service, these include:
Collectors Club (NY), governor continuously since
1969 (also four years as secretary, four years as vice
president and three years as president);
Philatelic Foundation, 23 years as Trustee;
F.I.P. 18 years as president of the F.I.P. Traditional
Philately Commission;
International Association of Philatelic Experts (A.I.E.P.),
Director since 1987;
Society of Australasian Specialists (SAS/O), past
president;
Vice chairman of NOJEX (WSP National show held in
New Jersey in late May) since 1999.
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Experience and how it can help
Exhibiting: New Zealand: 1855-1874 APS Champion of
Champions 1973; FIP Grand Prix d’Honneur 1980; Samoa:
1836-1914, FIP Gold plus Special Prize
Judging: Internationally (and APS) accredited since
1974, also for literature (both APS and FIP).
Expertizing: APS Expertizing Committee since 1971,
Philatelic Foundation Expert Committee Chairman and
Member since 1968, AIEP expert for New Zealand and nineteenth
century Samoa since 1980.
Literature: Editor of ἀ e Collectors Club Philatelist
(2005–). Author of ἀ e Stamps and Postal History of Nineteenth
Century Samoa published by the RPSL and RPSNZ.
Regular column (“Ask Odenweller”) in ἀ e Philatelic Exhibitor.
Bottom Line: As a team player with no personal agenda,
I’ve found that doing things most efficiently and reaching
the needs of the largest number of members for the least
cost should be the continuing goal of the A.P.S. board. At the
same time, the various interests of the membership should
all be addressed—all are important.
For Director-at-Large
Denise Stotts — Texas • 160584
I am running for re-election for Director-at-Large. During
my term, I have learned much about the workings of the
APS and the board, and feel that two years is just not enough
time to contribute what I can. While I do not hold a degree in
business or law, there are others
on staff and the board who do.
My contribution comes from
being involved in every level
of philately, from local to international.
I also feel that being
a homemaker in these tough
economic times, I can bring excellent
budgeting skills to the
table.
During my term in office,
I initiated the idea for the new
policy to help smaller clubs retain
their free membership by
lowering the required number of APS members needed. I
also serve as board liaison to the many committees that provide
so much to the society.
The key issues facing our society remain the same as in
the last election – but more crucial than ever. We MUST
increase membership and continue to keep the APS relevant
to the members that we do have. We need to continue to do
outreach to grow new collectors through the many media
venues that are available to us. We also must find a way to
make the Match Factory viable by finishing sections and
finding tenants. I would like to find ways to lower expenses
at Headquarters by reaching out more to members – we all
have special talents and we need to share our special skills
with the society instead of having to outsource. While fundraising
is essential, giving of our time and skills can also help
the APS.
Background: I have collected since childhood and have
been involved with organized philately for almost 30 years. I
am an exhibitor and local level judge, and am proud to have
been awarded the Distinguished Philatelic Texan medal.
Some positions include:
Greater Houston Stamp Show chair – 15 years
Secretary - Ohio Postal History Society – 21 years
Director of Seminars – American Association of
Philatelic Exhibitors
Past member of the APS Ethics Committee
APS Mentor – 20 years
Club and Show Manager of APS Chapter Activities
Committee – 10 years
Awards chair for AAPE, USSS and WE
Board member – Texas Philatelic Society, Women
Exhibitors
Personal: I have been married for 35 years to fellow philatelist,
Jay. I work part time at a used book store and volunteer
at my local library, where I also serve as an officer of the
Friends of the Library.
For Director-at-Large
Wayne Youngblood — Wisconsin • 083411
When I became a junior APS member more than 30 years
ago, I couldn’t have been happier. I used my APS number
on checks, correspondence and
displayed it proudly. That attitude
has never changed. I am a
proud supporter of APS, doing
whatever I can to help the organization
remain strong and
grow. While not in a position
to be a large financial donor, I
consistently give freely of my
time and talents to benefit APS
and the hobby I love, whether
it’s serving on the board (4
terms), public speaking, developing
a course and serving as
a lead instructor of the Summer Seminar on Philately (for 19
years), expertizing, editing, writing, serving on committees
and more. Other service includes nearly 20 years as a Boy
Scout leader (also serving as Stamp Collecting merit badge
counselor), judging numerous local and national shows and
speaking to retirement communities and nursing homes.
As a candidate I have no agenda other than continuing to
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keep APS a vibrant and healthy organization that serves its
members well and is responsive to their voices. My history
within the hobby and my voting record as a board member
show this.
As subcategories to my primary goal I have ongoing concerns:
• It is vital to keep the workings of the APS transparent
to all members (a position I’ve consistently
promoted). I believe if we have no secrets from the
membership we should act accordingly. Discussion
should be spirited and not without disagreement.
Democracy is messy, but far transcends and exceeds
mere “consensus building.”
• We need to finish the American Philatelic Center in a
fiscally responsible manner. From the beginning I’ve
felt this facility is essential to APS achieving its longterm
goals.
• We need to keep APS functioning efficiently
financially, while looking for additional ways to
provide stability for the future.
• We must reach out through all means available
(including in person and through the Internet) to
draw collectors into the organized aspects of the
hobby. But that is not enough.
• APS also needs to be open to the needs of a rapidly
changing hobby and reach out to other hobbies,
such as deltiology (postcards), photo collecting and,
perhaps, other forms of related paper ephemera.
For APRL Trustee
Peter D. Martin — Connecticut • 130405
As the incumbent candidate for the APRL trustee position
that is elected by the APS membership, I am well
aware of the diverse issues facing the American Philatelic
Research Library. Today more than ever, the APRL Board
requires experienced leadership with in-depth knowledge of
the library’s needs and capabilities.
As an APRL Trustee I have worked to ensure that the
APRL had the resources it needed to fulfill and expand upon
its mission. I have served as the APRL Treasurer and on
the APS Finance Committee. I
seek re-election to ensure continuity
during the challenging
period that currently faces the
APS/APRL.
My background as an his -
torian, researcher, and instructor,
as well as in organizational
management, allows me to
bring unique insights to the decision
making process.
I have a long-time interest
in library and museum management and have served as the
librarian of the State Revenue Society since 1992.
Having previously served as an APS director and on the
APS Board, I also have an inside perspective on the matters
confronting the American Philatelic Society. Many of the
issues facing the two boards share a common thread and it is
beneficial to have experience and understanding from both
sides. That synergy has become much more pronounced in
recent years.
I primarily collect United States postal history, topicals
and back of the book, with an emphasis on federal and state
revenues and I enjoy finding unusual items and conducting
original research to discover the item’s history. My findings
have been published in dozens of publications.
I am an APS accredited chief literature and exhibition
judge and a member of more than two dozen philatelic organizations.
I have held leadership positions in many of these
groups and currently serve as president of APS Writers Unit
#30 and as chairman of the APS Publications Committee.
The APRL has become the best philatelic library in
North America and is an extraordinary member benefit. I
want to ensure that it continues to thrive.
For APRL Trustee
Larry Nix — Wisconsin • 178097
Philately and libraries are a wonderful combination. As a
retired librarian who is a serious philatelist I appreciate that
combination more than most. I am seeking your vote for
Trustee of the American Philatelic Research Library because
I think my knowledge of libraries, library technology, and
library networking will be an
asset to the APRL in making
philatelic knowledge more accessible
to the philatelic community.
Before I retired I was employed
as Director of Public
Library Development for the
State of Wisconsin for twenty
years. In that capacity I actively
participated in the technology
revolution which libraries have
undergone in Wisconsin and
the nation. I was responsible for
administering state and federal programs for public libraries
in Wisconsin which resulted in universal public library access
to the Internet and over ninety percent participation by public
libraries in shared automated library systems. Since my
retirement I continue to be active in library activities including
a variety of library consulting projects. For three years I
served on the Board of the Wisconsin Library Association
Foundation during which time it successfully implemented
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the most aggressive fundraising and publicity program in its
history. I am currently Chair of the Steering Committee of
the Wisconsin Library Heritage Center, the first endeavor of
its kind in the nation.
Even my philatelic interests relate to libraries. I am a
collector and exhibitor of postal artifacts related to libraries.
Philatelic exhibiting has resulted in multiple gold awards
and has been the impetus for my doing serious research related
to library history and philately. This has provided me
with a good understanding of the needs and challenges of
philatelists who do not have convenient physical access to
philatelic research collections.
I am particularly interested in promoting the leadership
role that the APRL can play in supporting and cooperating
with other philatelic libraries in the nation. I recently began
writing the “Library News” column for Philatelic Literature
Review. This has provided me with insight into the needs and
contributions of these important libraries.
You can find out more about me and my qualifications
for serving as a Trustee of the APRL on my website at http://
www.libraryhistorybuff.com/aprl-trustee.htm.
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Duties of Directors & Officers
of the American Philatelic Society
The following is taken from the APS Bylaws
(A Pennsylvania Corporation)
Adopted at the 107th Annual Convention,
Houston, Texas, August 17–18, 1993,
and as subsequently amended.
Article 5 — Duties of
Directors and Officers
5.1 The Board of Directors.
5.1.1 Members. The Board of Directors shall
consist of the President, three Vice Presidents,
the Secretary, the Treasurer, four
Directors-at-Large, and the Immediate
Past President. The Board shall have full
power to set policy and direction of the
Society except as otherwise provided in
these Bylaws, but shall exercise its power
in conformity with such definite orders
and instructions as shall be given to it by
the members of the Society by majority
vote taken by ballot in a referendum conducted
in the manner provided herein for
the adoption of an amendment to these
Bylaws.
5.1.2 Surety Bonds. Surety Bonds shall be
provided for all employees of the Society
at the Society’s expense and maintained
in appropriate amounts by the Executive
Director. Additionally, liability insurance
coverage for all officers and employees
shall be provided and maintained by the
Society as may be required from time to
time.
5.1.3 Board Meetings. The Board of Directors
may be convened in session by the
President, or by any three members of
the Board, for the general transaction of
business, or for the consideration of such
special matters as may be specified in the
call for the meeting.
5.1.4 Mail Votes. The Board, at the direction
of the President, may take votes by mail,
facsimile, telephone, e-mail or other electronic
means upon any written proposal
within the jurisdiction of the Board. A
copy in definite and specific form shall
be submitted to the President who shall,
without delay, cause the proposal to be
submitted to each member of the Board
for a vote. Any proposal which is offered
will be submitted by the President to each
member of the Board. Upon receipt of
the votes, or such number thereof as shall
indicate the adoption or rejection of the
proposal by the requisite majority of the
Board, the Executive Director shall record
the votes and shall notify the members of
the Board of the result.
5.1.5 Unbecoming Conduct. The Board of
Directors shall have authority to define
by general resolution that conduct unbecoming
a member which shall be the basis
for disciplinary action.
5.1.6 Record of Proceedings. The Board of
Directors shall keep an accurate, complete,
and permanent record of all proceedings,
which record shall be permanently filed at
the National Headquarters.
5.2 The President.
(a) The President shall preside at all meetings
of the Society and the Board of Directors.
(b) The President shall appoint, with the approval
of the Board of Directors, the various
committee chairpersons. The President
or the Treasurer or the President’s
designate shall sign all vouchers for payments
from the funds of the Society over
such amount as set from time to time by
resolution of the Board of Directors. The
President shall execute on behalf of and
in the name of the Society, all contracts,
deeds, and other legal instruments when
so authorized by the Board of Directors,
except as specified in Section 5.8 below.
(c) The President shall have general supervision
over all officers and committees, to
the end that there shall be full and complete
performance of their duties by each
of said officers and committees.
5.3 The Board of Vice Presidents.
(a) The three Vice Presidents shall constitute
the Board of Vice Presidents as said term
is employed in these Bylaws. The Board
of Vice Presidents shall elect one of its
members as Chairperson and/or another
as Recorder, and the Recorder (Chairperson)
shall have the custody of the current
records of the Board and shall act as its
Secretary.
(b) The Board of Vice Presidents shall have
charge and control of the admission of
members as otherwise herein provided.
(c) It shall be the disciplinary body of the
Society, and shall have authority, subject
to appeal to the Appeals Tribunal, to discipline
or expel members for failure to
pay their indebtedness to the Society, for
fraudulent or unethical conduct as stamp
collectors or dealers, or for conduct unbecoming
a member as defined by general
resolution of the Society or the Board of
Directors.
(d) It shall keep an accurate and permanent
record of of its decisions in a form determined
by them, and such records shall be
permanently filed in the National Headquarters
after they have ceased to be current.
(e) It shall submit a report to the annual
meeting.
5.4 The Secretary.
(a) The Secretary shall keep accurate and permanent
records for all of the regular and
special meetings of the Society and of the
Board of Directors, which shall be permanently
filed at the National Headquarters.
(b) The Secretary, when required, shall attest
all legal documents and all charters for
chapters and certificates presented to life
members, and shall perform such other
duties as are delegated to the Secretary
elsewhere in the Bylaws.
5.5 The Treasurer.
(a) The Treasurer shall oversee the custody of
all securities of the Society subject to the
supervision of the Board of Directors.
(b) The Treasurer shall advise the Executive
Director in all matters concerning the financial
duties discharged at the National
Headquarters.
(c) The Treasurer shall in collaboration with
the Executive Director present an annual
financial report and a report of budgetary
requirements.
5.6 The Directors-at-Large.
The four Directors-at-Large shall have supervision
of such activities of the Society as
may be assigned to them by the President,
and shall help promote the Society in their
several localities.
5.7 The Immediate Past President.
The Immediate Past President in a like manner
as other Board members shall participate
and vote in all matters pending
before the Board.
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Bylaws of The American
Philatelic Society (APS)
A Pennsylvania Nonproἀt Corporation
Proposed Revisions (January 2009)
Adopted August 17–18, 1993, and as subsequently amended
The Board of Directors unanimously recommends approval
of the following changes recommended by the Bylaws Committee
and ask that you vote Yes on the ballot. Proposed additions
are shown in red and text proposed to be eliminated is shown
with a line through it. Bylaws revisions have been done to provide
consistency, clarification, and in accordance with Pennsylvania
State laws. Major changes are summarized below:
Article 1 — Addition of the Name, Principal Offices, General
Charitable Purposes and Mission of the Society.
Article 2 — The Article on ἀe American Philatelist was moved
forward as it was previously referred to prior to any definition
of what it is.
Article 3 — Here and elsewhere recognition of the Internet is
incorporated. “Writing” is broadened to formally allow applications
to be made electronically.
• in this case allowing for application to be made in a format
other than “writing.”
• The current bylaws are inconsistent in granting some
rights to members at least age 18 while other rights required
the age of 21. Age 18 has been consistently applied in these
recommendations.
• Clarification that a suspended membership is not a membership
in good standing
Article 4 — The Board selection of a candidate in the case of a
tie vote allows for a much quicker process at a much lower
cost.
• The same requirements should apply to the Board of Vice
Presidents regardless of how far apart they live.
• Removal of the maximum number of dealers who can
serve on the APS Board.
• Provides for a procedure in the case of temporary incapacity
of a member of the Board
Article 5 — Recognizes the American Philatelic Research Library
President and the Dealer Representative as non-voting
ex-officio members of the Board.
- Specifically allows for meetings of the Board by methods
such as teleconference call other than in person.
- Allows for possibility of on-line voting
Article 6 — Makes provision for the position of the Immediate
Past President if that individual is unable to serve.
Article 7 — Elimination of referral to a specific division and
provision of similar treatment for any division.
Article 8 — Article on American Philatelist now Article 2.
Article 11 — Allows for establishment of other funds that might
be required to comply with a donor’s wishes.
Article 15 — Meets the expectation of all nonprofit corporations
that they have provision for the dispensation of their
assets in case of dissolution.
Article 1 — Mission, Purpose, and
Powers
1.1 Name. The name of the organization shall
be the American Philatelic Society, or
“APS.”
1.2 Principal Offices. The principal office of
the American Philatelic Society (“Society”)
shall be at 100 Match Factory Place,
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania 16823, until otherwise
established by an amendment of
the Articles or by the Board of Directors,
and a record of the change is filed with the
State of Pennsylvania in the manner provided
by law.
1.3 Additional Offices. This Society may also
have offices at such other places as the
Board of Directors may from time to time
appoint, or as the activities of the Society
may require.
1.4 General Charitable Purposes. The Society
is a Pennsylvania domestic not-for-profit
corporation organized for charitable
purposes within the meaning of section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code,
as amended. All activities of the Corporation
shall be undertaken without regard
to race, religion, ethnicity, national origin,
age, sex, or marital status.
1.5 Specific Purposes Mission. The specific
and primary purposes of the Society are:
(a) To promote stamp collecting and its
related areas for people of all ages;
(b) To offer services to its membership
and to philately in general, including
knowledge and education, which enhance
the pleasure and friendliness of stamp
collecting;
(c) To initiate and coordinate new programs
for the benefit of stamp collecting
and of all collectors;.
(d) To represent the United States of
America in the world body of philately;
(e) To assist its members in acquiring and
disposing of philatelic materials; and
(f) To receive and maintain gifts of money
and property, and to distribute money and
property, for charitable and educational
activities related to stamp collecting.
1.6 Scope of the Bylaws. It is intended that all
powers of the American Philatelic Society,
conferred upon it by virtue of its incorporation,
shall be executed in accordance
with the provisions of these Bylaws;, and
that admission to membership in the Society,
the rights and obligations of members,
and the tenure of membership, shall
be entirely subject to and depend upon
the provisions herein, and the exercise of
the authority herein conferred.
1.2 7 Legal Jurisdiction. The Court of Common
Pleas of Centre County, Pennsylvania,
shall have sole and executive jurisdiction
to hear and determine any issue
of for matter relating to these Bylaws,
including but not limited to: membership
in the Society; the rules, regulations, and
requirements of the Society, and; the code
of ethical standard standards to which the
Society subscribes, and/or its members
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subscribe; and, any other matter or issue
between the Society and any of its members.
1.3 8 Contractual Jurisdiction. The Court of
Common Pleas of Centre County, Pennsylvania,
shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction
to determine any contractual
dispute or matter between the Society and
any member(s), including, but not limited
to, any action for the collection of money
due the Society brought by or on behalf of
the Society for any reason whatsoever.
Article 2 — The American
Philatelist
2. The American Philatelist. It shall be the
official journal of the Society and shall
be published by the Editor under the supervision
and direction of the Executive
Director. The subscription price shall be
determined by the Board of Directors.
Article 32 — Membership
32.1 Qualifications. Any person of good character,
interested in philately, may become
a member of the American Philatelic Society
in accordance with the provisions of
this Article.
23.2 Application. Application for membership
in the Society shall be made in writing
and, either in hard copy or electronic
copy, or in such form as the Board of Directors
shall from time to time prescribe.
23.3 Fees and Dues. The All application fees,
membership admission fee fees and annual
dues of members shall be determined
from time to time by the Board of
Directors. If an application is withdrawn,
rejected or otherwise not accepted, the
any membership fees and or dues paid
shall be refunded to the applicant. Application
fees shall not be refunded
2.4 Admission
23.4 Membership Applicant Processing.
23.4.1 Procedure. Notice of each application
for membership shall be published
in The American Philatelist or in such
other format and in such form and detail
as the Board of Vice Presidents shall prescribe.
The National Headquarters shall
act upon each application for membership
not earlier than thirty (30) days after
such publication and after all necessary
investigations have been completed, unless
an objection or information relating
to or questioning the good character has
been developed. In the event that event
an objection or information relating to or
questioning the good character has been
developed, the application will be referred
to the Board of Vice Presidents for action.
A rejected applicant may petition the
Appeals Tribunal, as defined by Section
3.11.7, for reconsideration of the application
and may submit additional pertinent
information. The decision of the Appeals
Tribunal upon such reconsideration shall
be final.
23.4.2 Objection. Any member objecting to
the admission of an applicant shall file, a
written objection with the Executive Director,
a written objection accompanied
with by supporting facts to substantiate
the objection. All objections shall be investigated
by the National Headquarters
and the findings and results shall be reported
to the Board of Vice Presidents.
32.4.3 An application Age. All applicants for
membership shall be eighteen (18) years
of age. All applications for membership by
a person persons under 21 eighteen (18)
years of age shall be subject to such special
rules as the Board of Directors may
direct.
23.4.4 Membership Numbers. Applicants
shall be assigned membership numbers
seriatim.
23.5 Life Membership.
(a) Any member, eighteen (18) years of age or
over and in good standing, may become
a life member on payment of a sum to be
an amount established by the Board of
Directors and published in advance to the
membership, and any application fee, and
shall thereafter be exempt from all dues
and assessments. An Any applicant desiring
life membership shall include the life
membership fee plus admission fee with
the application.
(b) A member joining the Society prior to
January 1, 1974, who has been continuously
in good standing for a period of at
least 30 years, and who has attained the
age of 65 years, shall be granted Life Membership;
or, such member may obtain life
membership by making a single sum payment
of an amount equal to the total dues
for the years required to pay dues to age
65 and 30 years continuous membership,
or to such time after age 65 that 30 years’
membership would accrue.
23.6 Family Membership. A Any child under
eighteen (18) years of age and/or a
spouse of a member, residing who resides
with the member, may become a member
of the Society by complying with all the
requirements for membership and will
be entitled to all rights of members and
will be subject to all responsibilities of
membership; however,. The annual dues
for each additional member of a family
shall be one-half of the regular dues. The
additional member or members shall not
be entitled to receive The American Philatelist.
23.7 Good Standing. A member in good
standing, within the meaning of that term
as used in these Bylaws, is one who is not
in default in the payment of dues or other
indebtedness to the Society, and against
whom no charges have been proven
whose membership is not suspended.
23.8 Resignation. The resignation of a member
shall be submitted to the Executive
Director and shall become effective at the
end of the next month if such following
the submission of the resignation, provided
the member has no charges pending
and is then in good standing, or if not,
at such later date as the. A member has no
against whom charges are pending and/
or shall not be permitted to resign from
the Society until the member has been restored
to good standing.
23.9 Non-Payment of Dues. If a member is in
arrears in the payment of dues to the Society
for a period of at least thirty (30) days,
that fact shall be certified to the Board of
Vice Presidents by the Executive Director.
If the dues in arrears are not paid within a
period of time fixed by the Board of Vice
Presidents, the delinquent member shall
be dropped from membership.
23.10 Other Indebtedness. If, after notice, a
member is delinquent in the payment of
indebtedness to the Society for a period
of at least thirty (30) days, that fact may
be certified by the National Headquarters
to the Board of Vice Presidents by the Executive
Director for action.
23.11 Reprimand, Probation, Suspension,
and Expulsion.
23.11.1 Grounds, Penalty. Any member found
guilty by the Board of Vice Presidents of
(1) (a) Any failure to pay an indebtedness
to the Society within the period of
time affixed set by that Board,; and/or
(2) (b) Any fraudulent or unethical conduct
as a stamp collector or dealer,; and/or
(3) any (c) Any other conduct which has
been declared by resolution of the Society
or the Board of Directors to be conduct
unbecoming to a member, may be reprimanded,
placed on probation, suspended
for a definite period, or expelled from the
Society, or subject to other appropriate
sanctions. Actions taken by the Board of
Vice Presidents may be published or unpublished.
23.11.2 Charges, Notice. Charges against a
member shall be in writing, and may be
preferred proffered by the Board of Vice
Presidents itself, by any other officer, staff
member, member in good standing, or
other individual. All charges shall be definite
and specific. A copy of such charges
and as well as a notice of the time and
place of hearing them shall be served, as
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hereinafter provided, upon the member
against whom they are preferred proffered,
not less than thirty (30) days prior
to the date fixed by the Board of Vice
Presidents for the a hearing thereof. On
or before that the date of the hearing, the
member charged shall have the right to
file a written answer to the charges.
23.11.3 Investigation, Defense, Hearing.
Charges preferred proffered against a
member shall be investigated by the National
Headquarters. In the event the
charges are referred to the Board of Vice
Presidents, at any hearing related to such
charges, any party to the charges may appear
in person and/or be represented by
counsel. at any hearing related to such
charges. The Board of Vice Presidents
shall consider the results of any investigation
and all evidence, including correspondence
and other documents, submitted
in support of and/or in defense against
the charges, and shall make written findings
in writing thereon, and in case. If the
charges are sustained, the Board of Vice
Presidents shall impose a penalty as above
provided. in these Bylaws. The findings of
the Board, and the penalty imposed when
the charges are sustained, shall be in writing.
All data pertaining thereto shall be
permanently preserved at the National
Headquarters.
23.11.4 Findings. When charges are preferred
proffered against a member, notice thereof
shall be given by the National Headquarters.
The findings of the Board of
Vice Presidents and the penalty imposed,
if any, shall likewise be filed with the National
Headquarters and entered upon
the Society records. The National Headquarters
shall advise all parties to the
complaint of the Board of Vice Presidents’
findings. The findings of the Board of Vice
Presidents and the penalty imposed, if
any, may also be published in The American
Philatelist, unless an appeal is filed as
hereinafter provided. The findings of the
Board of Vice Presidents and the penalty
imposed by it, when no appeal is taken,
shall be final. Actions taken by the Board
of Vice Presidents may be published or
unpublished.
23.11.5 Member Charged With Crime. Any
member charged in any court of law with
a felony, or charged with crime involving
philatelic material or allegations of
any felony crimen falsi (class of offenses
involving deceit or falsification), may be
suspended by the Board of Vice Presidents
pending trial and, upon conviction
thereof, may be placed on probation, suspended
for a definite period, or expelled
by the Board of Vice Presidents from the
Society.
23.11.6 Appeal. Any involved party aggrieved
by any decision of the Board of
Vice Presidents may file with the National
Headquarters a notice of appeal to the
Appeals Tribunal. The notice of appeal
shall be filed within thirty (30) days after
receipt of notice of the findings of the
Board of Vice Presidents. The National
Headquarters shall transmit to the Appeals
Tribunal all evidence and other data
in its possession relating to the charges,
and the appeal shall be determined by the
Appeals Tribunal at its next regular meeting.
The Appeals Tribunal may sustain or
revise the findings of the Board of Vice
Presidents, and may ratify or modify the
penalty assessed. If the Appeals Tribunal
upholds the findings of the Board of Vice
Presidents, the findings may be published
in “The American Philatelist.” The findings
or may be unpublished, at the sole
discretion of the Board of Vice Presidents
and the penalty imposed by it, when no
appeal is Appeals Tribunal. Actions taken,
by the Appeals Tribunal shall be deemed
final, and may not be appealed further or
otherwise challenged in an court of law or
any other legal proceeding.
23.11.7 Appeals Tribunal. The Board of Directors
shall establish an Appeals Tribunal
to hear appeals from the decisions of the
Board of Vice Presidents. Decisions of the
Appeals Tribunal shall be final. The Appeals
Tribunal shall be composed of the
following members: the APS President,
Secretary, Treasurer, four Directors-at-
Large, Immediate Past President, and the
Executive Director, provided they are not
a party to or related to any appeal under
consideration. and are available to hear
appeals. The Board of Vice Presidents may
appoint one of its members to appear before
the Appeals Tribunal and report the
views of the Board of Vice Presidents relating
to any appeal under consideration
by the Appeals Tribunal.
23.12 Reinstatement. Upon payment of appropriate
fees and dues, as determined by
the Board of Directors, a former member,
whose membership was terminated other
than by expulsion, upon payment of appropriate
fees and dues may make application
may apply for reinstatement. Before
being acted upon notice of such application
shall be published and acted upon
as provided for in the case of original applications.
The Board of Vice Presidents
may establish a period of time in which
a former member will be admitted without
further action. A reinstated member
may be assigned a former membership
number only on upon payment in full of
all dues in arrears. When an application
is submitted by a person whose membership
was terminated by expulsion, such
the application shall be dated not less
than three (3) years from the date of the
expulsion and shall be accompanied by
payment of a non-refundable fee, to be set
by the Board of Directors, to defray the
costs of investigation. It The application
must also be accompanied by a personal
resume outlining the activities of the former
member during the expulsion period.
The resume should support and substantiate
the worthiness of the former member
for reinstatement. In addition, the former
member shall submit no fewer than five
(5) letters of recommendation from Society
members in good standing supporting
who support the application for reinstatement.
If, after review, the Board of Vice
Presidents decides that admission is appropriate,
the application will be treated
as a new application.
23.13 Official Notices.
(a) Notices of hearings upon of disciplinary
proceedings shall be served upon a member
charged in person, or by certified or
registered mail upon a member charged,
or by any other method of delivery that
provides proof of receipt.
(b) All other notices to a specific member
may be served in person or by ordinary
first class mail.
(c) Notices sent by first class mail shall be
deposited in the United States mails and
addressed to the member at the last recorded
address provided to the Society by
the member, with postage fully paid.
(d) Proof of service may be established by
a postal return receipt, a postal mailer’s
receipt, or by an affidavit of personal service.
(e) Validity of service shall not be affected by
the member’s failure to accept delivery,
the member’s refusal to accept delivery,
or by the member’s failure to provide the
Society with a correct address.
(f) Notices to the general membership may
be given by publication in The American
Philatelist.
23.14 Services of the Society. Services provided
by the Society to its members shall be
considered a privilege and may be denied
to any member abusing the privilege or
violating the established rules governing
a service.
23.15 Arbitration. /Alternative Dispute Resolution.
The Board of Vice Presidents,
with the approval of the Board of Directors,
may establish rules, regulations, and
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procedures for the arbitration or other
method of resolution of disputes between
members.
Article 34 — Meetings of
the Society
34.1 Annual Meeting.
(a) The annual meeting or convention of the
American Philatelic Society shall be held
at such time and place, and conduct such
business, as the Board of Directors shall
determine, and. The Executive Director
shall have authority to assume on behalf
of the Society, such portion of the expense
of holding any such meeting as may be
deemed advisable.
(b) The annual meeting Board of Directors
shall receive reports of all officers and
committees at the annual meeting, and
shall conduct any other business that may
come before it.
34.2 Spring Other Meeting. A Spring Other
meetings of the American Philatelic Society
may be held at such time and place,
and conduct such business, as the Board
of Directors shall determine, and. The Executive
Director shall have authority to
assume on behalf of the Society, such portion
of the expense of holding any such
meeting as required.
34.3 Special Meetings. Special meetings of
the Society may be called by the Board
of Directors, or by not less than one percent
of the membership. Notice of such a
meeting shall be published in The American
Philatelist or by such other method as
the Board of Directors deems appropriate
not less than sixty (60) days prior to the
date for which it has been called. The call
for the meeting shall specify the purpose
of the meeting and the matter or matters
to be submitted for the consideration and
action by at the meeting, and; however, no
other business shall be transacted at such
meeting. The special meetings. Publication
of the notice of such meeting in The
American Philatelist as herein before provided,
special meetings shall be construed
as an official call for the meeting.
34.4 Arrangements for Meetings. Not later
than sixty (60) days prior to the date of
any annual or Spring other meeting of
the Society, the President shall issue the
official call for the meeting. The call shall
state the time and place of the meeting
and shall be published in the following issue
of The American Philatelist.
34.5 Quorum. A quorum for the transaction
of any and all business at any meeting of
the Society shall consist of not less than
twenty-five (25) members present at the
meeting.
34.6 Reports and Resolutions. All reports of
officers and committees and all resolutions
presented at any meeting normally
shall be in writing.
3.7 Special Convention Committees. At each
annual meeting the President shall appoint
a resolutions committee and any
other committees that may be deemed
desirable. These committees shall serve
only during the period of that meeting for
which they are appointed.
34.7 Rules of Order. All parliamentary questions
shall be decided according to the latest
edition of Robert’s Rules of Order.
Article 5 — Officers
45.1 Eligibility. Any member of the American
Philatelic Society, in good standing, who
is eighteen (18) years of age or over, shall
be eligible to hold any office in the Society
or to serve upon any committee; provided,
however, that a candidate for the office of
President shall have previously served either
as an elective officer, or as a member
of the Board of Directors.
45.2 Elective Officers.
(a) The elective officers shall be a President,
three (3) Vice Presidents, a Secretary, a
Treasurer, and four (4) Directors-at-Large.
Such officers shall serve from the time of
the adjournment of the annual meeting in
the year of their election, to the adjournment
of the annual meeting held two
years thereafter, and until the election and
qualification of their successors in office.
(b) Other than as provided in Section 4.87
of these bylaws, no person shall hold the
office of President, Vice President, Secretary,
Treasurer, or Director-at-Large, for
more than two (2) consecutive terms in
the same office.
(c) No person shall hold elective office for
more than four (4) terms in any consecutive
twelve-(12) year period with the exception
that a person may hold the office
of President for two (2) terms in addition
to the four (4) terms enumerated above.
45.3 Administrative Officers.
(a) The Administrative Officers of the Society
shall be: the Executive Director, the Editor
of The American Philatelist, the Society
Attorney, and the heads of such divisions
as may be established from time to time.
(b) The Executive Director of the American
Philatelic Society shall be appointed or reappointed
by the President, subject to approval
by the Board of Directors, to serve
for indeterminate terms. Compensations
shall be fixed by the Board of Directors.
45.4 National Headquarters. The Board of
Directors shall establish a National Headquarters
where the administrative affairs
of the Society shall be conducted. The Executive
Director shall be in charge of the
National Headquarters.
45.5 Election.
45.5.1 Time. The elective officers of the Society
shall be elected by the members of the
Society in good standing by ballot, biennially,
in the odd numbered years.
45.5.2 Nominations. Nominations may be
made, with the consent of the nominee,
by
(a) A petition or petitions signed by no fewer
than ten (10) members, or
(b) A chapter or chapters. Nominations shall
be seconded by ten (10) or more other
chapters or by ten (10) or more seconding
endorsements each signed by ten
(10) or more members, not members of
a nominating or a seconding chapter, or
by a combination of ten (10) chapters and
such seconding endorsements. Only one
person can may be nominated or seconded
for each office by a chapter or a member
signing a petition. A nomination or a
second thereto made by a chapter shall be
signed by its President and Secretary. All
nominations and seconds thereto shall
be filed with the National Headquarters
only during that period between the fifth
and ninth months inclusive preceding the
month during which the annual meeting
is held in that year. Each nomination
properly seconded shall be published in
The American Philatelist not less than
ninety (90) days prior to the date of the
annual meeting. If the sole candidate for
an office dies or is found to be ineligible
after nominations have been published,
the Board of Directors shall nominate another
candidate for such office to fill the
vacancy thus created.
45.5.3 Official Ballot. An official ballot shall
be prepared by the Executive Director,
containing all nominations and spaces for
indicating a choice opposite each name.
The ballot shall be in such form as shall
preserve the secrecy thereof and shall provide
for proper identification, and may be
in such form as to allow electronic counting.
An official ballot shall be provided by
the Executive Director to each member in
good standing by direct mail or, by inclusion
in The American Philatelist, or by a
secure online method, as permitted by applicable
law, not less than ninety (90) days
prior to the date of the annual meeting.
45.5.4 Return of Ballot. The ballot Ballots
shall be returned to the Board of Elections
by mail or by a secure online method.
45.5.5 Closing, Canvass, Election. The election
shall close at twelve o’clock noon, on
the seventh Saturday after the date the
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magazine containing the ballot is mailed.
The Board of Elections shall thereupon
canvass the vote and report the results of
the election to all officers and candidates.
A plurality of all valid votes shall be required
for the election of a candidate.
4.5.6 Tie Votes. In the case of a tie vote for any
office, an official ballot shall be prepared
by the Executive Director, containing the
names and offices of the candidates for
which there was a tie vote, and containing
spaces for indicating a choice opposite
each name. The ballot shall be in such
form as shall preserve the secrecy thereof
and shall provide for proper identification,
and may be in such form as to allow
electronic counting. An official ballot shall
be provided by the Executive Director to
each member in good standing by direct
mail or by inclusion in the next issue of
The American Philatelist. The ballot shall
be returned to the Board of Elections by
mail. The election shall close at twelve
o’clock noon, 45 days following the mailing
of The American Philatelist. A plurality
of all valid votes shall be required for
the election of a candidate. In the event
of a subsequent tie 45.5.6 Tie Votes. In
the case of a tie vote for any office, the tie
shall broken by vote of the sitting Board
of Directors from among the candidates
whose votes remain equal. The board shall
convene and vote within ten (10) days of
the date of the announcement of the tie
vote. If a successful candidate dies prior
to taking office, the vacancy shall be filled
by appointment by vote of the Board of
Directors sitting at the time of death.
45.5.7 Announcement. Election results shall
be announced as soon as possible.
4.6 Collectors and Dealers. No fewer than six
of in a manner in which the ten elected officers
notice shall be stamp collectors who
are not classified as dealers received by the
Board of Vice Presidents. In the event that
an election shall result in the selection of
more than four dealers, the meeting immediately
after the report of the Board of
Elections shall determine which one or
ones are ineligible, by a vote of the members
present at the session of the meeting.
all members.
45.76 Board of Vice Presidents.
45.6.1 Residence of Vice Presidents. Meetings.
The three Board of Vice Presidents
shall reside within 200 miles of each other.
In order to accomplish this result in the
selection convene no fewer than six (6)
times per calendar year, with no fewer
than two (2) of the meetings to be held
in person. All members of the Board of
Vice Presidents, candidates for this office
shall be nominated and voted as a
unit, and nominations and ballots attend
in person all meetings at which do not
conforma member of the Society, against
whom charges have been proffered, notifies
the Board in advance that either the
member intends to this requirement shall
be rejected appear in person or counsel
intends to appear on behalf of the
member. In the event that a member or
counsel notifies the Board of the intent to
appear, the meeting of the Board of Vice
Presidents changes domicile shall be held
within ninety (90) days of the Society’s receipt
of the notice. Such meetings may be
continued or adjourned upon good cause
shown.
45.6.2 Removal from the area of residency,
the member may remain on the Board of
Vice Presidents at the option of the APS
Board of Directors.
4.7.2 Exception. Notwithstanding the provision
of Section 4.7.1 above, the three
Vice Presidents may reside more than
200 miles from each other, provided they
commit in writing to the President of the
Society to meet as a Board in a common
location at least once in a sixty day period.
Office. If any Vice President fails to attend
two or more than two consecutive meetings
of the Board of Vice Presidents or
more than four (4) meetings in during a
period of one year, the Board of Directors
may declare the position vacant.
45.8 7 Vacancies.
(a) Death, Resignation or Other Removal
from Office. In case of a vacancy in the office
of any of the officers of the Society because
of death or removal, such vacancy
shall be filled as follows: In the office of
President, by election by the Board of Directors
from among its own membership.
In any other elective or administrative
office, by appointment by the President,
subject to approval of the Board of Directors.
In the event of vacancy in the office
of President, the Board of Vice Presidents
shall call a meeting of the Board of Directors
within ten (10) days for the purpose
of naming a new President.
4.9 Removal from Office. (b) Should the
President notify the Board of Directors of
he or she is temporarily incapacitated or
otherwise unable to perform the duties of
the office, the Chair of the Board of Vice
Presidents shall assume the role of Acting
President until such time as the President
notifies the Board of Directors in writing,
or by email or other electronic means, of
his or her ability to resume the duties of
the office.
(c) Should the President be temporarily incapacitated
or otherwise unable to perform
the duties of the office, without the notification
required under Section 4.7(b),
then, upon proper notice to the President
and all members of the Board, the Board
of Directors may, upon a vote of 75 percent
of the members present or voting,
declare the President incapacitated, and
the Chair of the Board of Vice Presidents
shall assume the role of Acting President
until such time as the President notifies
the Board of Directors in writing, or by
email or other electronic means, of his
or her ability to resume the duties of the
office. The President shall, upon proper
notice to the President and all members
of the Board, be reinstated upon a simple
majority vote of the Board of Directors.
(d) Should any member of the Board of Directors
notify the Board that he or she is
temporarily incapacitated or otherwise
unable to perform the duties of the office,
the Board of Directors may, upon a
vote of a simple majority of the members
present or voting, declare the officer to be
incapacitated, and the President shall appoint
a person and the board shall confirm
that person to act in that officer’s
stead until such time as the officer notifies
the Board of Directors in writing, or by
email or other electronic means, of his or
her ability to resume the duties of the office.
The officer shall, upon proper notice
to the President and all members of the
Board, be reinstated upon a simple majority
vote of the Board of Directors.
(e) In the event of a vacancy or appointment
to fill any vacancy, notice shall be provided
to the membership in the next issue of the
American Philatelist or by other means
that assures that all members receive notice
of the vacancy or appointment.
45.8 Removal from Office. Any member of the
Board of Directors or the Executive Director
may be removed from office or suspended
for a definite period by the Board
of Directors, upon being found guilty by
the Board of misconduct in office, or neglect
of or inattention to official duty, or
upon being found by the Board unable to
perform official duty by reason of physical
or mental incapacity. Charges may be preferred
proffered in writing by three (3) or
more members in good standing, against
any member of the Board of Directors or
the Executive Director. Where charges are
so preferred proffered by members, the
Board of Directors shall first determine
whether the charges are of sufficient gravity
to justify a hearing thereon, and if so,
or in case they shall have decided to act
upon their own initiative, they shall cause
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notice in writing to be served upon the officer
against whom the charges are made,
not less than ten (10) days prior to the
date fixed by them for the hearing thereof.
All charges shall be definite and specific,
and a copy thereof shall be served with
the notice of the hearing. Not less than
two-thirds of the full membership of the
Board of Directors must concur in any order
for removal from office.
Article 56 — Duties of Directors
and Officers
56.1 The Board of Directors.
56.1.1 Voting Members. The Board of Directors
shall consist of the President, three
Vice Presidents, the Secretary, the Treasurer,
four Directors-at-Large, and the
Immediate Past President. The Board shall
have full power to set policy and direction
of the Society except as otherwise provided
in these Bylaws, but shall exercise
its power in conformity with such definite
orders and instructions as shall be given
to it by the members of the Society by
majority vote taken by ballot in a referendum
conducted in the manner provided
herein in Section 13.2 for the adoption of
an amendment to these Bylaws.
5.1.2 56.1.2 Nonvoting Members. The American
Philatelic Research Library President
and the Dealer Representative shall be
nonvoting ex officio members.
56.1.3 Surety Bonds. Surety Bonds shall be
provided for all employees of the Society
at the Society’s expense and maintained
in appropriate amounts by the Executive
Director. Additionally, liability insurance
coverage for all officers, directors and employees
shall be provided and maintained
by the Society as may be required from
time to time.
56.1.3 4 Board Meetings. The Board of Directors
may be convened in session by the
President, or by any three members of
the Board, for the general transaction of
business, or for the consideration of such
special matters as may be specified in the
call for the meeting. The meeting may be
held in person, through teleconference,
conference call, or as otherwise deemed
appropriate.
5.1.4 Mail Votes. The Board, at the direction
of the President, may take votes by mail,
facsimile, telephone, e-mail or other electronic
means upon any written proposal
within the jurisdiction of the Board. A
copy in definite and specific form shall
be submitted to the President who shall,
without delay, cause the proposal to be
submitted to each member of the Board
for a vote. Any proposal which is offered
will be submitted by the President to each
member of the Board. Upon receipt of
the votes, or such number thereof as shall
indicate the adoption or rejection of the
proposal by the requisite majority of the
Board, the Executive Director shall record
the votes and shall notify the members of
the Board of the result.
56.1.5 Unanimous Consent of Directors in
Lieu of Meeting. Any action which may
be taken at a meeting of the Board may
be taken without a meeting if a consent
or consents in writing setting forth the action
so taken shall be signed by all of the
Directors in office and shall be filed with
the Secretary of the Society.
56.1.5 6 Unbecoming Conduct. The Board of
Directors shall have authority to define,
by general resolution that, conduct unbecoming
a member, which shall be the
basis for disciplinary action.
56.1.6 7 Record of Proceedings. The Board of
Directors shall keep an accurate, complete,
and permanent record of all proceedings,
which record shall be permanently filed at
the National Headquarters.
56.2 The President.
(a) The President shall preside at all meetings
of the Society and the Board of Directors.
(b) The President shall appoint, with the approval
of the Board of Directors, the various
committee chairpersons. The President
or the Treasurer or the President’s
designate shall sign all vouchers for payments
from the funds of the Society over
such amount as set from time to time by
resolution of the Board of Directors. The
President shall execute on behalf of and
in the name of the Society, all contracts,
deeds, and other legal instruments when
so authorized by the Board of Directors,
except as specified in Section 56.8 below.
(c) The President shall have general supervision
over all officers and committees, to
the end that there shall be full and complete
performance of their duties by each
of said officers and committees.
56.3 The Board of Vice Presidents.
(a) The three Vice Presidents shall constitute
the Board of Vice Presidents as said term
is employed in these Bylaws. The Board
of Vice Presidents shall elect one of its
members as Chairperson and/or another
as Recorder, and the Recorder (Chairperson)
shall have the custody of the current
records of the Board and shall act as its
Secretary.
(b) The Board of Vice Presidents shall have
charge and control of the admission of
members as otherwise herein provided.
(c) It shall be the disciplinary body of the
Society, and shall have authority, subject
to appeal to the Appeals Tribunal, to discipline
or expel members for failure to
pay their indebtedness to the Society, for
fraudulent or unethical conduct as stamp
collectors or dealers, or for conduct unbecoming
a member as defined by general
resolution of the Society or the Board of
Directors.
(d) It shall keep an accurate and permanent
record of of its decisions in a form determined
by them, and such records shall be
permanently filed in the National Headquarters
after they have ceased to be current.
(e) It shall submit a report to the annual
meeting.
56.4 The Secretary.
(a) The Secretary shall keep accurate and permanent
records for all of the regular and
special meetings of the Society and of the
Board of Directors, which shall be permanently
filed at the National Headquarters.
(b) The Secretary, when required, shall attest
all legal documents and all charters for
chapters and certificates presented to life
members, and shall perform such other
duties as are delegated to the Secretary
elsewhere in the Bylaws.
56.5 The Treasurer.
(a) The Treasurer shall oversee the investments
custody of all securities of the Society
subject to the supervision of the Board
of Directors.
(b) The Treasurer shall advise the Executive
Director in all matters concerning the financial
duties discharged at the National
Headquarters.
(c) The Treasurer shall in collaboration with
the Executive Director present an annual
financial report and a report of budgetary
requirements.
56.6 The Directors-at-Large. The four Directors-at-Large
shall have supervision of
such activities of the Society as may be assigned
to them by the President, and shall
help promote the Society in their several
localities.
56.7 The Immediate Past President. The Immediate
Past President in a like manner as
other Board members shall participate be
a member of the Board of Directors, and
may vote in all matters pending before the
Board. If the Immediate Past President is
unwilling or unable to serve, or if there is
no Immediate Past President, the President
may, with the approval of the Board
of Directors, appoint another individual
who has served as president to serve as
the Immediate Past President.
56.8 The Executive Director.
(a) The Executive Director shall be responsible
for the operation and functioning of
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the Society as its Chief Executive Officer
subject to the supervision of and consistent
with the policies, orders, advice and
directions of the Board of Directors. He
The Executive Director shall be a member
of the Society qualified by experience
and ability to administer the general business
affairs of the Society in a satisfactory
manner and shall be in charge of the National
Headquarters of the Society and
shall have ultimate responsibility for the
financial and administrative affairs of the
Society, its programs, services and personnel,
including but not limited to the
following: be responsible to the President
and the Board of Directors for its proper
management.
(ba) The Executive Director shall s supervision
of e the direct-hire and contract employees
of the Society.
(cb) The Executive Director shall executione
of contracts and other legal instruments
on behalf of and in the name of the Society
up to a value and under such conditions
as may be set determined by the
Board of Directors by resolution.
(dc) collection and preservation The Executive
Director shall have custody of all securities
of the Society and shall be charged
with the collection and preservation of all
general records and official documents
of the Society, except as otherwise herein
provided.
(ed) keeping custody The Executive Director
shall have custody of the seal, keep the
and records of members., and issue membership
cards and receipts.
(fe)) The Executive Director shall send out
the annual collection of all statements for
dues and shall collect all dues and fees,
and the keeping of proper books of account
showing all receipts, disbursements,
and balances of cash on hand.
(gf) The Executive Director shall receivept
of all applications for membership and
shall to cause the list of applicants to be
published in The American Philatelist. If
an objection to an applicant is received,
copies of the application and objection
shall be furnished to the Board of Vice
Presidents.
(hg) furnishing The Executive Director shall
send upon request a a printed copy of the
Standing Resolutions, Bylaws, and approved
Board of Directors’ Minutes to any
member upon request.
(h) managing fundraising campaigns, soliciting
funds from primary donors, seeking
grant funding, overseeing solicitation
mailings, donor recognition, and proper
accounting and use of donations, both inkind
and cash
(i) creating, implementing, and managing
successful membership recruitment and
retention programs
(j) oversight and management of the operating
budgets of the Society
(k) assisting the Board of Directors in long
range planning and implementing the
strategies designed to achieve its goals.
56.9 Society Records. Any officers or any
committees having charge or custody of
Society records and/or properties shall,
upon termination of their term of office
or upon the appointment of a new
committee, deliver such records and/or
properties to the Executive Director or
designate. No permanent Society records
shall be destroyed unless approved by the
Board of Directors.
56.10 General Other Provisions.
(a) In addition to the powers conferred and
the duties imposed by this Article upon
the several officers of the Society, such officers
shall exercise the powers conferred
and perform the duties imposed upon
them by the other Articles of these Bylaws.
(b) Except as their duties are otherwise herein
provided for, the duties of the various administrative
officers shall be such as may
be prescribed by the Executive Director.
Article 76 — Committees
67.1 Appointments. Subject to the approval of
the Board of Directors, the President shall
designate such standing committees and
appoint chairpersons of such committees.
Committee members shall be designated
by committee chairpersons subject to approval
by the President.
67.2 Tenure. Such Committees shall serve
only for the specific term for which the
President is elected and until their successors
are appointed; or for such term as the
Board shall determine.
67.3 Duties. The duties of the Committees,
and the rules and regulations governing
their operations, shall be prescribed by
the Board of Directors, except as otherwise
provided herein.
Article 78 — Divisions
78.1 The Sales Division.
(a) The Sales Division shall be conducted
by the Sales Director in accordance with
rules prescribed by the Executive Director.
The rules may be revised from time
to time, but such revisions that change the
commission rate or fees assessed shall not
apply to sales books then in circulation.
(b) Each member in good standing shall be
entitled to participate in the Sales Division,
subject to the member’s strict compliance
with all the rules of the Division.
(c) A fee shall be assessed for the circulation
of sales books in the Sales Division in
such sum as the Executive Director shall
determine, and such fees shall be paid
into the Insurance Fund provided for by
Article 11.
7.2 Other Divisions.
(a) In addition to the Sales Division as herein
provided for, (a) The Board of Directors
shall have authority to establish such other
divisions any Divisions of the Society
as they may deem advisable.
(b) When any division is established, the Executive
Director shall prescribe the rules
and regulations thereof, and all such divisions
shall be conducted under the supervision
of the Executive Director.
(c) Any division so established by the Board
of Directors may be discontinued by the
Board at any time, by giving notice thereof
in The American Philatelist.
Article 8 — The American
Philatelist
8. The American Philatelist. It shall be the
official journal of the Society and shall
be published by the Editor under the supervision
and direction of the Executive
Director. The subscription price shall be
determined by the Board of Directors.
Article 9 — Chapters
9.1 Organization.
(a) Three or more members of the Society
may associate themselves together for the
purpose of forming a chapter of the Society,
and may make application for admission
as such. The application shall state
the name, location, names of members
and officers, and the rules of the proposed
chapter. If such application is approved
by the National Headquarters Board of
Directors, such applicant shall become a
chapter of the Society, subject to the provisions
of this Article.
(b) In all cases where less than five members
of the Society are associated together for
the formation of a chapter, the approval
of their application shall be probationary,
depending upon the increase of the Society
members in said chapter to at least five
within two years.
9.2 Fees and Dues. Each chapter shall pay the
same admission fees and dues as an individual
member of the Society.
9.3 Non-Society Members. A chapter may
admit to membership therein persons
who are not members of the Society, but
the number of members of the American
Philatelic Society in any chapter shall not
be less than five. A chapter shall be considered
for the purposes of these Bylaws
as an individual member. The operations
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of a chapter shall be an internal matter of
the chapter and the Society shall not bear
any responsibility or obligation for any
operation or action of any such chapter.
Acceptance of the membership of a chapter
constitutes an expression of warranty
that the chapter is complying and will in
the future comply with all laws pertaining
to the chapter.
9.4 Chapter Representative. Each chapter
shall designate one of its members, who
shall be a member of the Society, as the
representative of the chapter in its dealings
with the Society. The representative
shall report all activities of the American
Philatelic Society to the chapter, and
generally supervise the recruiting from
the chapter of members of the American
Philatelic Society and make sure that all
chapter reports to the Society are promptly
made, and all other procedural requirements
are complied with.
9.5 Sales Division Service. Chapters may participate
in the Sales Division under such
conditions as the Executive Director may
prescribe.
9.6 Reports. Each chapter shall make an annual
report of its activities signed by an
officer, and indicate therein those of its
members who are members of the American
Philatelic Society. Failure to do so or
to have less than five American Philatelic
Society members on its membership rolls
for two consecutive years shall be grounds
for the Board of Vice Presidents to revoke
the charter of the chapter.
Article 10 — Affiliates
10.1 Specialty Societies. Upon request submitted
to the Executive Director, any organization
at least national in scope and
character formed for the study of a special
phase of philately whose objectives and
activities are compatible with the American
Philatelic Society, may affiliate with
the Society with the approval of the Board
of Directors. Affiliation may be terminated
by either the affiliate or by the Society
upon 90 days written notice.
10.2 Purpose. The purpose of affiliation is to
sponsor and engage in such activities as
will be mutually beneficial to the organizations
and to promote the fullest possible
exchange of information and ideas for the
welfare of philately.
10.3 Reports. Each affiliate will designate a
member of the American Philatelic Society
to be its representative who will be
responsible for furnishing the Executive
Director of the American Philatelic Society
an annual report including the names
and addresses of the affiliate’s current officers.
This can consist of the published
report of the affiliate or, if no published
report exists, the report can be made on
a form furnished by the Executive Director.
Each affiliate shall provide the Society
with its bulletins and its membership list
when published from time to time and
in exchange the Society will provide the
representative of each affiliate with the
monthly issues of “The American Philatelist”,
which include the periodic and annual
reports of the Society.
10.4 Terminology. An affiliate which has
heretofore used the designation of “Unit”
may elect to continue such designation.
Article 11 — Funds, Finances, and
Salaries
11.1 Life Membership Fund. Monies received
for Life Memberships shall constitute the
Life Membership Fund and shall be invested.
Yearly the Executive Director may
distribute to the General Fund an amount
to be determined by the Finance Committee,
and approved by the Board of Directors,
to be representative of the cost of
services to life members.
11.2 Insurance Fund.
(a) The fees assessed for the circulation of
sales books in the Sales Division which are
provided for by Article 7.1 (c) shall constitute
the Insurance Fund, the principal
of which that is not needed for the current
operations of the fund shall be invested,
pending any future need for its use.
(b) From the Insurance Fund may be withdrawn
and distributed periodically to the
General Fund an amount, to be approved
by the Board of Directors, to cover the
cost of managing the operations of the
Insurance Fund.
(c) There shall be paid out of the Insurance
Fund claims submitted by members of
the Society for loss or damage to stamps
in circulation in the Sales Division where
such losses or damages have been substantiated.
(d) There shall also be paid out of the Insurance
Fund, with the approval of the
Board of Directors, the cost of such protective
measures as are established for the
purpose of preventing substitution and
fraudulent claims and substantiating just
claims against the Insurance Fund, the
premium upon the official bonds of the
employees required to be bonded, the premiums
upon insurance provided for the
Society, and the cost of processing claims
made upon the Fund.
(e) The income of the Insurance Fund, unless
required to meet its obligations, may be
withdrawn periodically and distributed
to the General Fund for the general purposes
of the Society.
11.3 Tiffany Fund. Any monies donated to
the Society, specifically for the Society’s
endowment, shall constitute the Tiffany
Fund, the principal of which shall be invested
to serve as an endowment for the
Society. Yearly, the executive Director may
distribute to the General Fund any earnings
which have accrued to that Fund.
Such funds are used to improve services
to the membership or to undertake new
projects as approved by the Board of Directors.
11.4 Other Funds. The Board of Directors
may approve additional funds designated
for specific purposes.
11.45 General Fund. With the exception of
the Life Membership Fund and the Insurance
Fund, All other income of the Society
not otherwise designated shall constitute
the General Fund.
11.56 Management of Funds. Subject to supervision
by the Finance Committee, the
Executive Director may enter into or terminate
custodial contracts or trust agreements
for the management and handling
of Society funds.
11.67 Budget. The Finance and Audit Committee
shall annually present for approval
by the Board of Directors a budget for the
ensuing fiscal year showing the estimated
receipts accruing to the General Fund,
and the proposed expenditures for the
current operations of the Society. Except
when expressly authorized by the Board
of Directors all expenditures of the Society
shall be limited to the amounts authorized
by the budget as thus approved and
in effect at any given time.
11.78 Fiscal Year. The fiscal year for the Society
shall commence January 1st in each
calendar year.
11.89 Official Bonds. The Board of Directors
shall recommend and approve a practical
amount of official bonds on officers and
employees of the Society, which shall be
conditioned on the faithful performance
of all official duties. The premium on all
official bonds shall be payable from the
Insurance Fund as provided herein.
11.9 Disbursement of Funds. All disbursements
of funds of $1,000.00 and over
shall be executed made on checks signed
by the Executive Director or the Executive
Director’s designate and reviewed
by the President or the Treasurer or the
President’s designate; but provided that
vouchers and checks for all disbursements
of amounts less than $15,000.00 may be
signed by the Executive Director or the
Executive Director’s designate.
11.1010 9 Auditing of Accounts. All accounts
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of the Society shall be audited annually by
a certified public accountant employed by
the Board of Directors and at any other
time when the Board shall so direct.
Article 12 — Limitations of
Personal Liability
12.1 The Society shall indemnify and save
harmless directors, officers, employees,
agents, and representatives of the Society
in accordance with and pursuant to the
provisions of the Pennsylvania Corporation
Code as well as criteria adopted by
the Board of Directors and set forth in
“Limitations of Personal Liability of the
Society.” Indemnification of Directors and
Officers. Each person who is or was a Director
or Officer of the Society (including
the heirs, executors, administrators of the
estate of such person) shall be indemnified
and held harmless by the Society for
all actions taken by him/her and for all
failures to take action (regardless of the
date of any such action or failure to take
action) to the fullest extent permitted by
Pennsylvania law against all expense, liability
and loss (including without limitation
attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines,
taxes, penalties, and amounts paid or to be
paid in settlement approved by the APS)
reasonably incurred or suffered by such
Director or Officer in any such person’s
capacity as Director or Officer, or arising
out of such person’s status as Director or
Officer. No indemnification pursuant to
this Section shall be made, however, in
any case where the act or failure to act giving
rise to the claim for indemnification is
determined by a court to have constituted
misconduct or recklessness.
12.2 Notwithstanding the foregoing section,
a director, officer, employee, agent, and
representative of the Society shall not be
personally liable for monetary damages as
such for any action taken, or any failure to
take any action, unless:
(a) The director has breached or failed to
perform the duties of office as defined in
“Limitations under 15 Pa.C.S. 5712 or any
amendment, supplement, or re-enactment
thereof (relating to standard of Personal
Liability of the Society”; care and justifiable
reliance); and
(b) The breach or failure to perform constitutes
self-dealing, willful misconduct, or
recklessness.; provided, however, that the
provisions of this Section shall not apply
to the responsibility or liability of a Director,
officer, employee, agent, or representative
(a) pursuant to any criminal statute; or
(b), or to the liability of a Director for the
payment of taxes pursuant to Local, State,
or Federal Law.
Article 13 — Amendments
13.1 Amendment Proposals. The Bylaws of
the Society may be amended as herein
provided. Amendments may be proposed:
(a) By the Annual Meeting;
(b) By petition signed by at least 100 members
in good standing;
(c) By action of a chapter of the Society,
provided one or more other chapters endorse
the proposal; and all proposals and
endorsements thereto made by chapters
shall be signed by their President and Secretary;
and
(d) By the Board of Directors.
13.2 Amendment by the Board of Directors.
The Bylaws of the Society may be amended,
when appropriate, by a two-thirds majority
of the Board of Directors, subject to
the approval of the membership as hereinafter
provided.
13.3 Procedures. A proposed amendment and
an amendment adopted by the Board of
Directors pursuant to 13.2 shall be placed
in the hands of the Executive Director not
later than the last day of the fifth month
preceding the month during which the
biennial meeting, in the odd numbered
years, is to be held and shall be published
in The American Philatelist at least ninety
days prior to said meeting. A ballot for
voting upon a proposed amendment or
amendment adopted by the Board of Directors
shall be provided to each member
in good standing by direct mail or by inclusion
in The American Philatelist not
less than 90 days prior to the date of the
annual meeting. Arguments pro and con
furnished by members interested may
be distributed with the ballot, upon such
conditions as the Board of Directors may
prescribe. The form of the ballot shall provide
a space wherein each member may
indicate a vote for or against the proposal
or amendment submitted. The ballots
shall be tabulated and the vote reported
by the Board of Elections as herein provided.
A favorable vote by two-thirds of
the members voting thereon as herein
provided shall be necessary for the adoption
or nullification of the Bylaws.
13.4 Special Election. The Board of Directors
may, in lieu of the procedure set forth,
direct that a proposed amendment or an
amendment adopted by the Board of Directors
be submitted for the vote of the
membership by mail, provided due notice
thereof shall be given in The American
Philatelist at least 90 days prior to said
vote.
Article 14 — Standing Resolutions
14.1 Definition and Scope. Standing Resolutions
shall be regulatory in nature whose
application is not limited to one year, as
a Standing Resolution shall be printed as
an appendix to the Bylaws, but shall not
amend nor change the meaning of the
Bylaws.
14.2 Life of Resolution. A Standing Resolution
shall stand until its regulations are no
longer in force or necessary in the opinion
of the Board of Directors.
14.3 Presentation and Adoption. Standing
Resolutions shall be presented to the
membership at a Business Meeting of the
Society for action;, provided, however,
that the Board may adopt such Resolutions
between meetings of the membership,
but such Resolutions shall be submitted
for ratification at the next meeting
of the membership.
14.4 Effect of Prior Resolutions. Standing
Resolutions in force at the time of the Bylaws
shall remain in effect as herein above
provided.
Article 15 — Dissolution
15.1 Upon dissolution of the Society, any surplus
remaining after paying or providing
for all liabilities of the Society shall be
distributed to such other organization(s)
organized and operated exclusively for
charitable, educational, religious, or scientific
purposes as shall at the time qualify
as an exempt organization(s) under Section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, or the corresponding provision
of any future Internal Revenue Law,
as the Board of Directors shall determine.
Make Sure Your Vote Counts!
To be counted, your ballot must reach the Board of Elections no later than noon, June 6, 2009. Do not send the ballot to
APS Headquarters. Ballots not properly mailed to the Board of Elections at the address given here will not be counted. Send
your ballot to: Board of Elections (2009), P.O. Box 55, Bellefonte, PA 16823-0055
476 Americ An Phil Atelist / May 2009

from the executive director
by peter mastrangelo
It’s Been Great!
This is my last column. My last day at APS will be April 30. I
want to express my thanks for being allowed to serve as your
Executive Director for the past three years. It’s been great!
During that time I have traveled across the country representing
your Society, meeting many of you, whom I have come to know as
friends and colleagues. I leave the Society in great hands with dedicated
staff that serve the interests of the hobby and the Society with great
skill, talent and care. They are the best!
It also has been my pleasure to serve the Boards of the APS and APRL. To Library President Ken
Grant, APS Immediate Past President Janet Klug, APS President Wade Saadi and, of course, the late Nick
Carter, I could not have asked for better support and leadership during my tenure. Thank you!
Now, it is time to move on. In his column this month, APS President Saadi discusses the financial
challenges facing the APS and APRL that are compounded in this difficult economy. My departure
releases financial resources that can be utilized to retain valuable personnel and program services to our
members. Since I am also a member of the Society (yes, the collecting bug hit me, too), this is a prudent
and necessary approach to take.
While my immediate situation may be unsettled for a period of time, I trust that the future will
be bright, that my stamp collecting will still be affordable, and that the APS will emerge a strong and
financially secure organization. Thank you for your ideas, support, and encouragement over the past
three years.
Good-bye and God Bless!
Pittsburgh
The City of Champions Welcomes
the APS & the Champion of Champions
August 6–9
David L. Lawrence Convention Center
StampShow 2009
May 2009 / Americ An Phil Atelist 479

in the know
by mercer bristow
High Technology & Counterfeiting
As my age advances, so does
the world of technological
developments. I don’t mind
looking back with nostalgia, but I do
have one regret as the years go by —
that I will not experience the wonders
of technology our children and
grandchildren will use. Imagine being
six years old in 2009, surrounded
by computers that can take you anywhere
in the world. Sure, it has some
limitations and downsides, but this
ability to surf the web can take your
imagination to unlimited heights.
Sadly, the same technology that
enlightens and entertains also serves
those just waiting to deceive the innocent
and uninformed. One such new
technological challenge for philately is
the laser jet printer.
Invented at Xerox in 1969, it was fifteen
years before the first laser printer
intended for a mass market was released:
the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 8ppm. It
sold for $3,500 and weighed seventyone
pounds. Today, the least expensive
monochrome laser printers often sell for
well under $100.
Laser jet print quality has improved
many fold since its introduction. But,
from the start, philatelic counterfeiters
were eager to embrace this machine to
create fraudulent spurious material by
adding bogus cancellations, surcharges,
and overprints to otherwise genuine
stamps.
A good rule-of-thumb suggests that
certification is needed for authenticity
if:
• a cancel adds significantly to the value
of an otherwise uncanceled stamp;
• a surcharged stamp is worth
substantially more than an
unsurcharged stamp; or
• an overprinted stamp is worth
substantially more than an
unoverprinted stamp.
Seen on the left,
Bermuda’s genuine
1875 “One Penny” on
1-shilling surcharge
catalogues $625
unused, making a
tempting subject for
forgers able to simulate
the surcharge. The
stamp on the right,
submitted in the late
1990s for certification
to the American
Philatelic Expertizing
Service, proved that
someone found that
temptation irresistible.
To put it more bluntly, whenever a
basic stamp is worth appreciably more
with the addition of some marking, that
marking needs to be closely and critically
scrutinized.
I first noticed fake markings applied
to stamps by laser jet printers just prior
to the millennium. I wrote about one
such fraudulent surcharge in 1999 after
I examined an item that had been submitted
as Bermuda’s 1875 “One Penny”
surcharge on its green 1-shilling stamp
(Scott 15). The unsurcharged green
1-shilling Victoria stamp, one of the
island’s first issues in 1865, today cata-
This enlargement of the surcharge on the genuine stamp
(above left) shows the characteristics of the authentic
surcharge. Note the distinct outlining at the edges of the
letters, where the ink has been “pushed” away from the
center of the design and dried in hard, clear, sharp lines.
The lines in the underlying typographed 1-shilling stamp
can be seen through the letters of the overprinted text.
Applied using a laser printer, this bogus “One Penny”
surcharge lacks the definition, sharpness, and precise
shape of the authentic typeset-printed surcharges. The
edges of the bogus surcharge are poorly defined, and the
surcharge itself is completely opaque.
480 Americ An Phil Atelist / May 2009

A philatelic tragedy is this Falkland
Islands 1933 5-shilling stamp. Some
faker seeking to fraudulently enhance
its apparent valued added a bogus
laser jet-printed cancel, and thereby
turned a scarce and valuable unused
stamp many collectors would love to
have had into a sad souvenir of human
greed.
logues $450 unused and $67.50 used.
The “One Penny.” Surcharge — added a
decade later to help meet a temporary
shortage of low-value stamps — boosts
those book values to $625 and $310, respectively.
Upon close inspection, we determined
that the submitted item was a
genuine 1-shilling green stamp that had
been fraudulently modified with the
addition of a laser jet print of the surcharge.
Shown on the previous, adapted from
our original scans, is a genuine “One
Penny” surcharged 1-shilling stamp on
the left, overlapped by the laser jet-printed
forgery on the right. The overprints
alone also have been enlarged to show
finer detail.
There were a number of distinguishing
characteristics of the bogus surcharge,
one of which is best seen under
high magnification. The edges of the bogus
surcharge are poorly defined, with
speckles surrounding an opaque letter
that is solidly inked in. This is unlike
the inking of the authentic, original surcharge,
which shows a distinct outline
on each letter caused by the ink being
“pushed” away from the central body
of each letter, a characteristic of letter
press printing. The lines of printing on
the original stamp show through in the
lettering of the genuine surcharge.
The forged surcharge also has an inferior
appearance overall, with uneven
edges, and lacks the crisp, sharp appearance
and characteristic gloss of the ink
used in the authentic surcharges. Note,
too, the club-like blobs at the feet in the
“P” and the “n”s in the fake, which contrast
with the clean serifs on the true
“One Penny” surcharge.
This was the first laser ink jet-printed
fakery ever submitted to the American
Philatelic Expertizing Service. From then
on, we were on the lookout for similar
material submitted for APEX certificates.
We were not disappointed (or, rather, we
were), as more submissions arrived with
similar, dangerously deceptive high-tech
alterations.
Most of this fakery took the form of
bogus cancellations that had been added
to make stamps appear to be more
valuable. Especially regrettable were the
valuable stamps that had been altered by
fakers and thereby made worthless, except
as a cautionary tale.
The 5-shilling King Penguin stamp
from the 1933 “Permanent Occupation”
set issued by the Falkland Islands
is listed as Scott 74. Its catalogue value
of $700 unused is quite substantial, but
less than the $1,000 listed for a genuine
used copy. Shown nearby is what was
once a perfectly good unused stamp,
ruined forever by someone who added
a fake laser jet-applied cancel in hopes
of parlaying fraud into a bigger payoff.
Now the stamp is just a sad curio. What
a shame.
The list goes on, and the submissions
continue to come in for examination.
But laser jet-applied cancels, surcharges,
and overprints are fairly easy to detect
simply by using a 30-power magnifying
glass. Just check the characteristics outlined
earlier in this column. And, if you
still can’t be certain, submit your stamp
to APEX and we’ll take a look as well.
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May 2009 / Americ An Phil Atelist 481

sales talk
by tom horn
Add $8.2 Million & $5 Million
Escape to your own,
self-controlled stampcollecting
world with
an approval circuit for
an evening, or spend
an evening browsing
StampStore online for
items you need.
…and what do you get? A lot of
stamps running through the APS selling
services. Imagine having access to an
inventory of $13.2 million — and these
are the totals of the selling prices, not the
catalogue values (which is in excess of
$25 million).
There are stamps of all kinds, and
they are accessible only by members of
the American Philatelic Society. The variety
(mint, used, on cover, with special
cancels, errors, blocks, high­value, lowvalue,
and more), the sheer numbers
(2–3 million in the sales books and more
than 310,000 on StampStore), and value
(the average asking price is around 50–55
percent of the catalogue value) are hard
to match, particularly through the mail.
The stamps come from many different
members (some 2,100) who want to
sell through the APS, because we get the
material in front of many other members
(more than 6,600) who would appreciate
the stamps and because it helps their Society.
So much of this material is
not, and would not be, out on the
market as individually identified
items.
Sure, you can buy an accumulation
that contains the type
of material we have, but you
would be hard pressed
to find the items sold
individually.
Escape to your own,
self­controlled stampcollecting
world with
an approval circuit for
an evening, or spend
an evening browsing
StampStore online for
items you need. Use the
Circuit Request form
inside the back mailing
cover of this issue to
begin your quest to fill
album spaces through
our approval circuits.
AND visit Stampstore.
org to find what you need.
Summer Saturday
Hours-Reminder
Traveling this summer? While driving
through central Pennsylvania, take
a short detour south of Interstate 80
to visit us at the Match Factory. Spend
some time in the Sales Division, browsing
through sales books and through
the donations that have been prepared
by our volunteers for selling at low, low
prices. We will be open for business
on six Saturdays this summer: June 6,
June 20, July 18, August 1,
August 15, and August 29
from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Our
regular hours are 8 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. Monday through
Friday.
June 20 is the weekend
leading into our Summer
Seminar and is the local
club’s stamp show. August 1
and August 15 are the weekends
before and after Stamp­
Show in Pittsburgh.
There are many other events coming
up at the Match Factory the rest of this
year; please visit our website at www.
stamps.org for details.
Also, please let us know when you
will be away from home, so we can route
the circuits around your name on each
circuit list while you are gone. An advance
notice of two weeks or more is
ideal.
Other Reminders
• The USPS postage rates increase this
month.
Visit
the Sales
Division &
StampStore
Online!
www. stamps.org
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• Effective July 1, 2009 the posting fees
for items submitted to StampStore
will be 10 cents per item.
How Did You Start
Collecting Stamps?
We still receive letters from members
on this subject. Here is one from Arnold
Neuman:
In 1952, I was working in the
Yorkville section of Manhattan,
NY. This area had a Post Office on
a street nearby where my associate
would go to a certain window to
obtain US plate blocks. The clerk
would save the blocks for collectors
in the neighborhood.
I accompanied my friend and
got caught up in collecting. When
the clerk, by mistake, gave me the
80¢ Air mail instead of the normal
3¢ block having the same coloring
and not wanting to accept something
that was wrong, I gave him
the difference between the $3.20 for
the Air mail and 12¢ for the regular
block. He thanked me for my
honesty. That started me collecting
other kinds of stamps, too.
‘5 For 10’ Categories
(Needs)
We need U.S. items, except U.S. First
Day Covers, U.S. Mint post-1950, U.S.
Used post-1950 and U.S. Plate Blocks
post-1950. You can earn coupons for
free blank books and mounts for every
10 completed books containing material
from a set list of categories. (Each group
of 10 o r more qualifying books must be
received at the same time and the books
must have at least $50 per book. ἀe coupons
are issued when the qualifying books
are reviewed soon after arriving.) Each
book must be designed to fit one of the
categories, exclusively. Details are sent
with blank sales book orders. You also
may visit www.stamps.org/Services/ser_
Sales5for10.htm. [Note: Single-country
books usually have better sales.] Below
are categories that are in short supply:
U.S. 19th Century Covers
U.S. Air Mails (stamps)
U.S. Cut Squares
U.S. Fancy Cancels
Australian States
British Africa (pre-independence)
China
Eastern Europe (single countries)
Germany pre-1945
Japan
Spain
Turkey
Collectible Postage
It is important that circuit members
use collectible postage when forwarding
circuits. The member receiving a circuit
likes to have some used postage to add
to his/her collection as a little payback,
however minimal, for the cost of forwarding
each circuit. Continue to ask
the postal clerk for a meter stamp, even
if it is for $0, to indicate that the package
was mailed through a clerk, giving it
quicker passage through the postal system.
Postage stamps and meter stamps
are officially recognized as indicators
that postage on a package has been prepaid.
The proper mailing method must
be used to forward circuits. Our main
concern is for the circuit content.
May 2009 / Americ An Phil Atelist 483

show time
To obtain a listing in this section,
submit a “Show Time” form, available
online at www .stamps.org or b y mail
from APS headquar ters. Information
must be received 60 days before desired
publication time. Listings are free to
shows sponsored by APS chapters and
affiliates. Sho ws that do not include
exhibits are identified with *B*. Grand
award winners from *WSP* shows are
eligible for the annual APS World Series
of Philately Champion of Champions
competition.
All information is subject to change
without notice. While every effort is
made to ensure accur acy, you should
check with the specific show to v erify
information. The APS w ebsite listing
includes shows much further in advance
than we have space to include in The
American Philatelist
Massachusetts May 1‐3
Philatelic Show, Northeastern Fed. of Stamp
Clubs, Holiday Inn, Boxboro. Contact Jeff Shapiro,
dirtyoldcovers@aol.com. *WSP*
Canada May 2
Saugeen Stamp Club Annual Show and Exhibition,
Saugeen Stamp Club, Hanover Knights of
Columbus Centre, 1 mile west of Hanover on the
South side of the Highway, Hanover, Ont. Contact
Peter Kritz, pkritz@coldwellbankerpbr.com;
519‐364‐4752.
Pennsylvania May 2
HAVEX, Havertown Stamp Club, Union Methodist
Church, Allston Rd. & Brookline Blvd., Havertown.
Contact Ernie Anderson, drexelhillernie@comcast.
net; 610‐259‐1045.
Canada May 2‐3
ORAPEX 2009, RA Stamp Club, Ottawa Philatelic
Society, Curling Rink at the RA Centre, 2451
Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ont. Contact Robert Pinet,
pinet.robert@gmail.com; 613‐745‐2788.
Pennsylvania May 2‐3
VALPEX 2009, Spring‐Ford Philatelic Society,
Friendship Fire Company, 269 Green Street,
Royersford. Contact Dick Dehner, DickRoslie@
verizon.net; http//SFPS.TRIPOD.com;
610‐970‐5408. *B*
Washington May 2‐3
GESSPEX, Greater Eastside Stamp Society, VFW
Hall, 4330 148th Ave., NE, Redmond. Contact Dana
S. Nielsen, g‐e‐s‐s@comcast.net; http://g‐e‐s‐s.
home.comcast.net; 722‐284‐6167.
Pennsylvania May 8‐9
BUTLERPEX, Butler County Philatelic Society,
Tanglewood Senior Center, 10 Austin Ave., Lyndora.
Contact Tom Sivak, tomsstmps2133@earthlink.net;
724‐287‐1931.
Utah May 8‐9
Utah Spring Stamp Fest, Utah Philatelic Society,
Utah State Fair Park, Bonneville Building, 155 North
1000 West, Salt Lake City. Contact Dave Blackhurst,
dblackhu@wcfgroup.com; 801‐580‐9534.
Louisiana May 9
Baton Rouge Stamp Show, Baton Rouge Stamp
Club, Cortana Mall, Entrance 5 (next to Sears),
Corner Florida Blvd. And Airline Highway, Baton
Rouge. Contact Zbigniew S. Cypel, mrbretired@aol.
com; 225‐802‐7919.
Ohio May 9
TRUMPEX 2009, The Warren Area Stamp Club, J
V Johnson Community Center, 800 Gillmer Road,
Leavittsburg. Contact Howard Lutz, howrex2@aol.
com; 330‐924‐5124.
Colorado May 15‐17
Rocky Mountain Stamp Show (ROMPEX), Rocky
Mountain Phil. Exhibition, Inc., Holiday Inn ‐ Denver
International Airport, John Q. Hammonds Trade
Center, Chambers Rd & I‐70, Denver. Contact
Rusty Morse, rmss@rockymountainstampshow.
com; www.rockymountainstampshow.com;
303‐421‐8833. *WSP*
New York May 15‐17
ROPEX, Rochester Phil. Assoc., ESL Sports
Centre, 2700 Brighton Henrietta Townline Rd.,
Rochester. Contact Dave Robinson, stamptmf@
frontiernet.net; http://www.rpastamps.org/ropex.
html; 585‐266‐2524. *WSP*
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Ohio May 16‐17
FALLSPEX 46, Cuyahoga Falls Stamp Club,
Lions Park Lodge, 6th Street and Silver Lake
Avenue, Cuyahoga Falls. Contact Hugh Kleasen,
blixtenAR@aol.com; 330‐923‐5856.
Illinois May 22‐24
COMPEX 2009, 10 Clubs of the Combined
Philatelic Exhibition of Chicagoland, Inc., Forest
View Educational Center, 2121 S. Goebbert,
Arlington Heights. Contact Charles Berg,
stampkingchicago@hotmail.com; 773‐775‐2100.
New Jersey May 22‐24
NOJEX, North Jersey Federated Stamp Clubs, Inc.,
Crown Plaza, Meadowlands, Two Harmon Plaza,
Secaucus. Contact Robert G. Rose, rrose@phks.
com; www.nojex.org; 973‐966‐8070. *WSP*
Oregon May 22‐24
PIPEX, Northwest Federation of Stamp Clubs/
Oregon Stamp Society, Double Tree Hotel,
Lloyd Center Exhibition Hall, Portland. Contact
Ron Sumner, rmsumner1@juno.com; www.
oregonstampsociety.org; 503‐774‐2344. *WSP*
Connecticut May 24
HPS 4th Sunday Show, New Haven Philatelic
Society, Annex YMA, 554 Woodward Ave., New
Haven. Contact Brian McGrath, soggy3@aol.com;
http://www.NHPS1914.org/; 203‐389‐2863. *B*
Virginia June 5‐7
NAPEX, National Phil. Exhibitions of Washington
D.C., McLean Hilton at Tyson’s Corner, 7920
Jones Branch Dr., McLean. Contact Thomas
Lera, frontier2@erols.com; www/napex.org;
703‐205‐0600. *WSP*
New Jersey June 6
Merchantville Stamp Club Saturday Bourse,
Merchantville Stamp Club, Temple Luthern Church
Parish Hall, 5600 North Route 130 (at Merchantville
Ave.), Pennsauken. Contact Dave Grayson,
merpex@aol.com; http://mysite.verizon.net/
vzexkfun; 856‐667‐3168.
Alabama June 6‐7
HUNTSPEX, Huntsville Philatelic Club, Tom
Vevill Conference Center University of Alabama,
Huntsville 550 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville.
Contact Heinrich Hahn, hhahn@bellsouth.net;
http://www.stampshows.com/huntsville_hpc.html;
256‐536‐7785.
Canada June 12‐14
Royal 2009 Royale, St. Catharines Stamp Club &
RPSC, Parkway Convention Centre, 327 Ontario
St., St. Catharines, Ont. Contact Stuart Keeley,
stuart.keeley@sympatico.ca; www.royal2009.ca;
905‐227‐9251.
Ohio June 12‐14
National Topical Stamp Show, American Topical
Association, Dayton Convention Center, 33 East
Fifth Street, Dayton. Contact Robert J. Mather,
burrobob@wi.rr.com; www.americantopicalassn.
org; 262‐968‐2392. *WSP*
Connecticut June 28
NHPS 4th Sunday Show, New Haven Philatelic
Society, Annex YMA, 554 Woodward Ave., New
Haven. Contact Brian McGrath, soggy3@aol.com;
http://www.NHPS1914.org/; 203‐389‐2863. *B*
Ohio June 28
Hudson Stamp Bourse, Lincolnway Stamps,
Clarion Inn, 240 Hines Hill Rd. (Near Rt. 8 and
Ohio Turnpike), Hudson. Contact David G. Pool,
lincolnway@sssnet.com; 330‐832‐5992. *B*
New York July 10‐12
Metro Expo New York Stamp Show, Metropolitan
Expositions LLC, Midtown Holiday Inn, 440 W. 57th
Street between 9h & 10th Aves. On 57th St., New
York. Contact Elaine Dunn, stampnews@aol.com;
www.metroexpos.com; 603‐424‐7556. *B*
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Michigan July 11
Bay De Noc Stamp and Coin Club Show, Bay De
Noc Stamp and Coin Club, Bay De Noc College
Cafeteria, 2001 N. Lincoln Ave., Escanaba.
Contact Mark Kuehn, triplejump@charter.net;
906‐785‐2103. *B*
Minnesota July 17‐19
Minnesota Stamp Expo, Twin City Philatelic Society,
Crystal Community Ctr., 4800 Douglas Dr., N.,
Minneapolis. Contact Tom Eckers, tome56@
earthlink.net; www.stampsminnesota.com;
763‐533‐1860. *WSP*
Nevada July 25‐26
Greater Reno Stamp & Cover Show, Nevada
Stamp Study Society, National Bowling Stadium,
300 North Center Street, Reno. Contact Harvey
Edwards, renostamp@earthlink.net; http://home.
earthlink.net/~renostamp/; 775‐246‐4769.
North Carolina July 25‐26
CHARPEX 2009, Charlotte Philatelic Society,
Harris Conference Center, 3216 CPCC Harris
Campus Dr. (Formerly CPCC West Campus Dr.),
Charlotte. Contact Gene Zhiss, ejzhiss@carolina.
rr.com; www.charpex.info; 704‐563‐8110.
Connecticut July 26
NHPS 4th Sunday Show, New Haven Philatelic
Society, Annex YMA, 554 Woodward Ave., New
Haven. Contact Brian McGrath, soggy3@aol.com;
http://www.NHPS1914.org/; 203‐389‐2863. *B*
Massachusetts July 31‐August 2
AMERICOVER, American First Day Cover
Society, Holiday Inn, Boxboro. Contact Norm
Elrod, showinfo@afdcs.org; www.afdcs.org;
931‐473‐6164. *WSP*
Michigan August 1‐2
COLPEX, Collectors Club of Michigan, Sokol
Cultural Center, 23600 W. Warren Ave., Dearborn
Heights. Contact Charles Wood, jarnick@wowway.
com; 248‐546‐1282. *B*
Ohio August 1‐2
CINPEX 09, Greater Cincinnati Philatelic
Society, Hugh Watson (Greenhills) American
Legion Hall, 11100 Winton Road, Cincinnati.
Contact Jim Siekermann/Ron Maifeld,
jims150320@aol.com; www.freewebs.com/gcps;
513‐825‐4379/714‐759‐5580 Cell. *B*
Pennsylvania August 6‐9
APS StampShow, American Philatelic Society,
David L. Lawrence Convention Center, 1000
Fort Duquesne Blvd., Pittsburgh. Contact Dana
Guyer, stampshow@stamps.org; www.stamps.
org; 814‐933‐3803 ext 217; Fax 814‐933‐6128.
*WSP*
Washington August 8
Strait Stamp Show, Strait Stamp Society, Sequim
Masonic Lodge, South 5th and Pine, Sequim.
Contact Cathie Osborne, rickcath@wavecable.com;
360‐683‐6373.
Pennsylvania August 10‐15
PSS National Convention, Precancel Stamp
Society, Inn at Greentree, Greentree. Contact
Robert Bruhn, grturff@yahoo.com; 330‐478‐0642.
*B*
Kansas August 15‐16
The Wichita Show, Wichita Stamp Club, Cessna
Activity Center, 2744 George Washington Blvd.,
Wichita. Contact Ralph Lott, 316‐747‐2118.
Connecticut August 23
NHPS 4th Sunday Show, New Haven Philatelic
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Society, Annex YMA, 554 Woodward Ave., New
Haven. Contact Brian McGrath, soggy3@aol.com;
http://www.NHPS1914.org/; 203‐389‐2863. *B*
Maryland September 4‐6
BALPEX, Baltimore Phil. Soc., Marriott’s Hunt Valley
Inn, 245 Shawan Rd., I‐83 Exit 20 E., Hunt Valley.
Contact Robert E. Gibson, Sr., balpex@verizon.net;
www.balpex.org; 410‐332‐4741. *WSP*
New York September 11‐12
Metro Expo New York Stamp Show, Metropolitan
Expositions LLC, Midtown Holiday Inn, 440 W. 57th
Street between 9h & 10th Aves. On 57th St., New
York. Contact John Dunn, stampnews@verizon.net;
www.metroexpos.com; 800‐635‐3351. *B*
Canada September 11‐13
BNAPEX 2009 SEAWAYPEX, British North America
Philatelic Society, Ambassador Conference Resort,
1550 Princess Street, Kingston, Ont. Contact
Jerome C. Jarnick, jarnick@wowway.com; www.
bnaps.org; 248‐689‐1966.
Arkansas September 12‐13
32st Annual Stamp & Postcard, Mountain Home
Area Stamp Club, Ramada Inn Convention
Center, Hwy. 62 and Commerce Drive, Mountain
Home. Contact Bill Burdick, whbj@suddenlink.net;
870‐425‐7799.
Nebraska September 12‐13
Omaha Stamp Show, Omaha Philatelic Society,
Metro Community College‐South Campus, 2909
Babe Gomez Ave., Omaha. Contact Edgar Hicks,
edgarh@fcstone.com; www.omahaphilatelicsociety.
org; 800‐228‐2316 ext 2506. *WSP*
Pennsylvania September 18‐20
SEPAD.TWO, Metropolitan Expositions LLC &
CASDA, Park Ridge Hotel & Confernece Center
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at Valley Forge, 480 North Gulph Road, Rte
422, I‐76, King of Prussia. Contact Elaine Dunn,
stampnews@aol.com; www.metroexpos.com;
603‐424‐7556. *B*
Texas September 18‐20
Greater Houston Stamp Show, Houston Philatelic
Society, Humble Civic Ctr., 8233 Will Clayton Pkwy.,
Humble. Contact Denise Stotts, stottsjd@swbell.
net; www.houstonphilatelic.org; 281‐955‐9664.
Nova Scotia September 25‐26
No VaPEx 09, Nova Scotia Stamp Club, Dartmouth
Sportsplex, Dartmouth. Contact John Hall, www.
nsstampclub.ca; 902‐434‐6529.
Wisconsin September 25‐27
MILCo PEx , Milwaukee Phil. Soc. Inc.,
Mount Mary College Bergstrom Hall, 2900 N.
Menomonee River Parkway, Milwaukee. Contact
Carol Schutta, harryncarol@hotmail.com; www.
milwaukeephilatelic.org; 414‐464‐6994. *WSP*
Illinois September 26‐27
CUPEx , Champaign‐Urbana Stamp Club, Urbana
Civic Center, 108 E. Water Street, Urbana. Contact
Louise B. Toft, louiseb@pubserv.com; www.
prairienet.org/cusc/; 217‐359‐9115.
Connecticut September 27
NHPS 4th Sunday Show, New Haven Philatelic
Society, annex YMa, 554 Woodward ave., New
Haven. Contact Brian McGrath, soggy3@aol.com;
http://www.NHPS1914.org/; 203‐389‐2863. *B*
California October 2‐4
WINEPEx 2009, Redwood Empire Collectors Club,
Marin Center avenue of the Flags, 10 avenue
of the Flags, San Rafael. Contact Kurt Schau,
auctions@harmerschau.com; 707‐778‐6454.
New Jersey October 3‐4
Clifton 2009 Fall Stamp, Cover, and Post Card
Show, Clifton Stamp Society, Inc., Community
Recreation Center, 1232 Main avenue @
Washington ave., Clifton. Contact Thomas Stidl,
stidl@verizon.net; www.cliftonnj.org/stamp;
973‐471‐7872. *B*
Ohio October 3‐4
Cuy‐LorPex 2009, Cuy‐Lor Stamp Club, Lutheran
High School West, 3850 Linden Rd., Rocky River.
Contact Ray Simko, ranrsimko@msn.com.
Illinois October 10
Will County Stamp Show, Philatelic Club of Will
County & Naperville area Stamp Club, Messiah
Lutheran Church, 19901 S. Houbolt Road
(Jefferson‐Route 52 & Houbolt), Joliet. Contact
Max Zollner, mezollner@comcast.net; http://www.
virtualstampclub.com/apschapwillcounty.html;
815‐725‐7544.
Oklahoma October 10‐11
Lawton/Fort Sill annual Stamp Show, Lawton/Fort
Sill Stamp Club, Super 8 Motel, 2202 Indian Trail
Rd., Lawton. Contact Bernard S. Pawloski, Jr.,
obiks46@yahoo.com.
Pennsylvania October 11
Fall 2009 CaPEx , Capital City Philatelic Society,
Linglestown american Legion, 505 N. Mountain
Road‐I‐81 Exit 72, Harrisburg. Contact Linn Kinney,
717‐732‐7813.
Indiana October 16‐18
INDYPEx , Indiana Stamp Club, Indianapolis
Marriott East Hotel, 7202 East 21st Street,
Indianapolis. Contact John Becker, indypex@
indianastampclub.org; http://indianastampclub.org.
*WSP*
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New York October 16-17
STEPEX 2009, Elmira Stamp Club, Big Flats
American Legion Post, 45 S. Olcott Rd. (I‐86, Exit
49), Big Flats. Contact Alan Parsons, alatholleyrd@
aol.com; 607‐732‐0181.
Delaware October 17
58th Annual Stamp Show, Dover Stamp Club,
St. Andrews Lutheran Church, 425 North
DuPont Highway, Dover. Contact Melvin Nace,
doverstampclub@aol.com; 302‐674‐0837.
Pennsylvania October 17
GETTYPEX 09, Blue & Gray Stamp Club,
Gettysburg Fire Company, 35 North Stratton Street,
Gettysburg. Contact Dwight L. Monn, dmonn@
pa.net; 717‐624‐4864.
Michigan October 17-18
MOTOPEX, Motor City Stamp & Cover Club, Sokol
Hall, 23600 W. Warren, Dearborn Heights. Contact
Robert Quintero, qover@comcast.net; www.
motorcitystampandcover.com; 248‐546‐0038. *B*
New Mexico October 17-18
NewMexPex 2009 Stamp Show, Albuquerque
Philatelic Society, Meadowlark Senior Center,
4330 Meadowlark Lane, SE, Rio Rancho. Contact
Paul L. Morton, p.morton@att.net; http://www.
newmexicostamps.com/; 505‐867‐9664.
Connecticut October 18
THAMESPEX, Thames Stamp Club, Waterford
High School, Rope Ferry Rd., (Rt. 156 & Rt. 1),
Waterford. Contact Obie Hill, obiehill@tvcconnect.
net; 860‐464‐0000.
Oklahoma October 23-24
OKPEX, Oklahoma City Stamp Club, First Christian
Church Gym, 3700 N. Walker Avenue, Oklahoma
City. Contact Joe Crosby, joecrosby@cox.net;
405‐749‐0939. *WSP*
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Michigan October 24‐25
Kent Philatelic Society Stamp Show, Kent Philatelic
Society, Aquinas College‐Donnelly Center, 1607
Robinson Road, SE at Woodward Lane, Grand
Rapids. Contact Ron Mrozinski, oldkentstamps@
gmail.com; www.oldkentstamps.com; 616‐891‐9878.
Connecticut October 25
NHPS 4th Sunday Show, New Haven Philatelic
Society, Annex YMA, 554 Woodward Ave., New
Haven. Contact Brian McGrath, soggy3@aol.com;
http://www.NHPS1914.org/; 203‐389‐2863. *B*
Pennsylvania October 30‐November 1
U. S. Classics 2009, U.S. Philatelic Classic Society,
American Philatelic Society, 100 Match Factory
Place, Bellefonte. Contact Wade Saadi, wade@
pencom.com; http://www.uspcs.org/2009_APS_
NPM_USPCS_Meeting.html; 212‐513‐7777.
Indiana October 31‐November 1
AWPEX 2009, Anthony Wayne Stamp Society,
Concordia Lutheran High School, 1601 Saint Joe
River Road, Fort Wayne. Contact Jim Mowrer,
stamp4@verizon.net; 260‐471‐2469.
Michigan October 31‐November 1
AAPEX, Ann Arbor Stamp Club, Morris J. Lawrence
Bldg., Washtenaw Comm. College, 4800 E. Huron
River Dr., Ann Arbor. Contact Harry & Dottie Winter,
http://aastampclub.googlepages.com/.
New York November 7‐8
SYRAPEX 2009 ‐ Celebrates the 90th Anniversary
of the Syracuse Stamp Club, Syracuse Stamp
Club, Holiday Inn at Carrier Circle, 6555 Old
Collamer Rd., South, East Syracuse. Contact
Michael Ammann, kmarializ@juno.com; www.
syracusestampclub.org; 315‐468‐3710.
Pennsylvania November 7‐8
PITTPEX ‘09, Philatelic Society of Pittsburgh, South
Fayette Fire Hall, 661 Millers Run Rd., Bridgeville.
Contact Ron Carr, rgc211215@aol.com; www.
virtualstampclub.com/apschap_psp; 412‐561‐6562.
California November 13‐15
Filatelic Fiesta 2009, San Jose Stamp Club, Santa
Clara Fairgrounds, 344 Tully Road, San Jose.
Contact Stephen Schumann, sdsch@earthlink.net;
filatelicfiesta.org; 510‐785‐4794. *WSP*
Virginia November 13‐15
VAPEX, Virginia Philatelic Federation, Inc., Holiday
Inn ‐ Patriot, 3032 Richmond Road, Williamsburg.
Contact David B. Collins, rainbowx2@cox.net; http://
vaphilatelic.org; 757‐872‐6264. *WSP*
Ohio November 14‐15
Rubber City Stamp Club 90th Annual Stamp
Exhibition and Bourse, Rubber City Stamp Club,
Akron General Health & Wellness Center, Rt. 18 at
Crystal Lake Road, Montrose (Akron). Contact Tom
Hirschinger, 330‐336‐8227.
Illinois November 20‐22
CHICAGOPEX, Chicago Philatelic Society,
490 Americ An Phil Atelist / May 2009

Sheraton Chicago Northwest, 3400 W. Euclid,
Arlington Heights. Contact Kevin Doyle,
doyle‐stamps@att.net; www.chicagopex.com.
*WSP*
New York November 21
Autumn Stamp Festival, Buffalo Stamp Club, VFW
Leonard Post, 2450 Walden Avenue, Cheektowaga.
Contact George H. Gates, gghg53@aol.com;
716‐633‐8358. *B*
Connecticut November 22
NHPS 4th Sunday Show, New Haven Philatelic
Society, Annex YMA, 554 Woodward Ave., New
Haven. Contact Brian McGrath, soggy3@aol.com;
http://www.NHPS1914.org/; 203‐389‐2863. *B*
California December 4‐5
PENPEX, Sequoia/Peninsula Stamp Clubs,
Redwood City Community Activities Bldg., 1400
Roosevelt Ave., Redwood City. Contact Kristin
Patterson, penpexredwoodcity@yahoo.com; www.
penpex.org; 408‐267‐6643.
Florida December 4‐6
FLOREX — The Florida State Stamp Show, FSDA
& Central Florida Stamp Club, Central Florida Fair
Grounds, Commercial Exhibit Hall, 4603 West
Colonial Drive (SR 50), Orlando. Contact Francis
Ferguson, show@florexstampshow.com; www.
florexstampshow.com; 407‐493‐0956‐Cell. *WSP*
Connecticut December 27
NHPS 4th Sunday Show, New Haven Philatelic
Society, Annex YMA, 554 Woodward Ave., New
Haven. Contact Brian McGrath, soggy3@aol.com;
http://www.NHPS1914.org/; 203‐389‐2863. *B*
2010
Ohio February 5‐7
COLOPEX, Columbus Phil. Club, Makoy Center,
5462 Center Street, Hilliard. Contact Chuck
Wooster, cwooster@aol.com; http://www.colopex.
com. *WSP*
Arizona February 12‐14
ARIPEX, Arizona Fed. of Stamp Clubs, Mesa
Convention Center, 201 N. Center St., Mesa.
Contact Bill Chesser, mchesser@availe.com; www.
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aripexonline.com; 602‐956‐3497; 480‐967‐4827.
*WSP*
California February 19‐21
APS AmeriStAmp expo, American Philatelic
Society, Riverside Convention Center, Riverside.
Contact Dana Guyer, stampshow@stamps.org;
www.stamps.org; 814‐933‐3803 ext 217; Fax
814‐933‐6128.
Missouri February 26‐28
St. Louis Stamp Expo, Area Clubs, St. Louis
Renaissance Airport Hotel, 9801 Natural Bridge
Road, St. Louis. Contact David Kols, expo@
regencystamps.com; www.stlstampexpo.org;
800‐782‐0066; Fax 314‐361‐5677. *WSP*
Wisconsin March 6‐7
Stampfest 2010, Milwaukee Philatelic Society, Inc.,
St. Aloysius Gonzaga Hall, 1414 S. 92nd Street,
West Allis. Contact Carol Schutta, harryncarol@
hotmail.com; www.milwaukeephilatelic.org;
414‐464‐6994. *B*
Ohio March 19‐21
Garfield‐Perry March Party, Garfield‐Perry Stamp
Club, Masonic Auditorium, 36th & Euclid Ave.,
Cleveland. Contact Roger Rhoads, rrrhoads@aol.
com; www.garfieldperry.org. *WSP*
Texas April 16‐18
TEXPEX, Southwest Phil. Foundation, Doubletree
Hotel Dallas Near the Galleria, 4099 Valley View
Lane (LBJ Freeway at Midway Rd.), Dallas.
Contact Tom Koch, tkoch@utdallas.edu; www.
texasphilatelic.org/texpex.htm; 972‐883‐4951;
972‐883‐2473. *WSP*
California April 23‐25
WESTPEX, Western Phil. Exhibitions, Inc.,
San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel, 1800 Old
Bayshore Highway, Burlingame. Contact Edward
Jarvis, ejarvis@westpex.com; www.westpex.com;
415‐387‐1016. *WSP*
Massachusetts April 30‐May 2
Philatelic Show, Northeastern Fed. of Stamp Clubs,
Holiday Inn, Boxborough. Contact Jeff Shapiro,
dirtyoldcovers@aol.com. *WSP*
Colorado May 14‐16
Rocky Mountain Stamp Show (ROMPEX), Rocky
Mountain Phil. Exhibition, Inc., Holiday Inn ‐ Denver
International Airport, John Q. Hammonds Trade
Center, Chambers Rd & I‐70, Denver. Contact
Ronald Hill, rmss@rockymountainstampshow.
com; www.rockymountainstampshow.com;
303‐241‐5409. *WSP*
New York May 14‐16
ROPEX, Rochester Phil. Assoc., ESL Sports
Centre, 2700 Brighton Henrietta Townline Rd.,
Rochester. Contact Dave Robinson, stamptmf@
frontiernet.net; http://www.rpastamps.org/ropex.
html; 585‐266‐2524. *WSP*
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Virginia June 4‐6
NAPEX, National Phil. Exhibitions of Washington
D.C., McLean Hilton at Tyson’s Corner, 7920
Jones Branch Dr., McLean. Contact Thomas
Lera, frontier2@erols.com; www/napex.org;
703‐205‐0600. *WSP*
Colorado June 25‐27
National Topical Stamp Show, American Topical
Association, Crowne Plaza Denver Airport,
15500 East 40th Avenue, Denver. Contact
Robert J. Mather, burrobob@wi.rr.com; www.
americantopicalassn.org; 262‐968‐2392. *WSP*
Illinois August 6‐8
AMERICOVER, American First Day Cover Society,
Marriott Hotel, Oak Brook. Contact Norm Elrod,
showinfo@afdcs.org; www.afdcs.org; 931‐473‐6164.
*WSP*
Ohio August 7‐8
CINPEX 10, Greater Cincinnati Philatelic
Society, Hugh Watson (Greenhills) American
Legion Hall, 11100 Winton Road, Cincinnati.
Contact Jim Siekermann/Ron Maifeld,
jims150320@aol.com; www.freewebs.com/gcps;
513‐825‐4379/714‐759‐5580 Cell. *B*
Virginia August 12‐15
APS STAMPSHOW, American Philatelic Society,
Richmond Convention Center, Richmond.
Contact Dana Guyer, stampshow@stamps.org;
www.stamps.org; 814‐933‐3803 ext 217; Fax
814‐933‐6128. *WSP*
Wisconsin September 17‐19
MILCOPEX, Milwaukee Philatelic Society, Inc.,
Mount Mary College Bergstrom Hall, 2900 N.
Menomonee River Parkway, Milwaukee. Contact
Carol Schutta, harryncarol@hotmail.com; www.
milwaukeephilatelic.org; 414‐464‐6994. *WSP*
Illinois October 9‐10
CUPEX, Champaign‐Urbana Stamp Club, Urbana
Civic Center, 108 E. Water Street, Urbana. Contact
Louise B. Toft, louiseb@pubserv.com; www.
prairienet.org/cusc/; 217‐359‐9115.
Michigan November 6‐7
AAPEX, Ann Arbor Stamp Club, Morris J. Lawrence
Bldg., Washtenaw Comm. College, 4800 E. Huron
River Dr., Ann Arbor. Contact Harry & Dottie Winter,
http://aastampclub.googlepages.com/.
California November 12‐14
Filatelic Fiesta 2010, San Jose Stamp Club, Santa
Clara Fairgrounds, 344 Tully Road, San Jose.
Contact Stephen Schumann, sdsch@earthlink.net;
filatelicfiesta.org; 510‐415‐6158. *WSP*
Ohio November 13‐14
Rubber City Stamp Club 91st Annual Stamp
Exhibition and Bourse, Rubber City Stamp Club,
Akron General Health & Wellness Center, Rt. 18 at
Crystal Lake Road, Montrose (Akron). Contact Tom
Hirschinger, 330‐336‐8227.
Visit www.stamps.org
for the complete Show Calendar!
May 2009 / Americ An Phil Atelist 493

22.10 x 24.89 mm (overall)
Colors: Red, Blue, Black
Plate Numbers: S followed by 3 single
digits (every 31st stamp)
On June 5, 2009, in McLean, Virginia
(Napex Stamp Show, no ceremony), the
Postal Service will issue a 44-cent, U.S.
Flag stamp in one design, in a pressuresensitive
adhesive, booklet of 10.
(c) Format: Booklet of 10 (1 design)
Modeler: Avery Dennison, SPD
Manufacturing Process: Gravure
Engraver: Keating Gravure
Printer: Avery Dennison (AVR),
Clinton, SC
Press Type: Dia Nippon Kiko (DNK)
Sizes (w x h): 18.54 x 21.34 mm (image);
22.10 x 24.89 mm (overall); 44.20 x
165.1 mm (booklet)
Colors: Magenta, Yellow, Cyan, Black
Plate Numbers: V followed by 4 single
digits
Marginal Markings: Stamp Side: ©2009
USPS; USPS logo; Plate block number
in one position. Cover: US Flag; Ten
self-adhesive 44¢ stamps; $4.40. Back
Cover: Promotional text; Barcode
(679300) in one position.
Tiffany Lamp Reissued
On April 28, 2009, in Washington,
DC, the Postal Service reissued a 1-cent,
Tiffany Lamp definitive stamp in one
design in a water-activated gum (WAG)
coil of 10,000 stamps. The stamp was
previously issued in the following formats:
• March 1, 2003, water-activated
gum (WAG) coil of 3,000.
• March 16, 2007, pressure-sensitive
adhesive (PSA) pane of 20.
• March 7, 2008, PSA pane of 20.
• June 7, 2008, WAG coil of 3,000.
Denomination: 1-cent Definitive
Format: Coil of 10,000 (1 design)
Designer/Art Director: Derry Noyes,
Washington, DC
Illustrator: Lou Nolan, McLean, VA
Modeler: Donald H. Woo
Manufacturing Process: Offset
Printer: Banknote Corp. of America, Inc./
Sennett Security Products, Browns
Summitt, NC
Press Type: Alprinta, 74
Paper Type: Nonphosphored, Type III
Adhesive Type: Water-activated
Colors: Magenta, Yellow, Cyan, Black,
Green
Stamp Orientation: Vertical
Sizes (w x h): 18.28 x 20.57 mm (image);
22.10 x 24.43 mm (overall)
Plate Numbers: S followed by 5 single
digits (every 14 stamps)
Purple Heart Reissued
On April 28, 2009, in Washington,
DC, the Postal Service reissued the Purple
Heart definitive stamp with a 44-cent
denomination. This stamp was previously
issued in the following formats:
• 2008, 42-cent pressure-sensitive
adhesive (PSA) pane of 20.
• 2008, 42-cent water-activated
gum sheet of 100 (available only
at Stamp Fulfillment Services,
Kansas City, MO).
• 2007, 41-cent PSA pane of 20.
• 2006, 39-cent PSA pane of 20.
• 2003, 37-cent PSA pane of 20.
Denomination: 44-cent Definitive
Format: Pane of 20 (1 design)
Designer/Art Director/Typographer:
Carl T. Herrman, Carlsbad, CA
Photographer: Ira Wexler, Braddock, MD
Modeler: Joseph Sheeran
Manufacturing Process: Offset/
Microprint “USPS”
Printer: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.,
Williamsville, NY
Press Type: Stevens, Vari-size Security
Press
Paper Type: Prephosphored, Type II
Adhesive Type: Pressure-sensitive
Colors: Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow
Stamp Orientation: Vertical
Sizes (w x h): 18.54 x 21.34 mm (image);
22.10 x 24.89 mm (overal); 135.89 x
125.22 mm (pane)
Plate Numbers: P followed by 4 single
digits
Marginal Markings: Front: ©2003 USPS;
Price; Plate numbers; Header: “Purple
Heart The Medal for the Combat
Wounded”; Plate position diagram.
Back: USPS logo; Barcodes (113700) in
4 positions.
594 Americ An Phil Atelist / June 2009

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membership report
No. 3, March 31, 2009
NEW APPLICANTS
The following applications were received during March 2009. If no
objections are received by the Executive Director (814-933-3803) prior to
May 31, 2009, these applicants will be admitted to membership and notice
to this effect will appear in the August 2009 issue.
Abrahamsen, Melany (215587) Port Jefferson
Station, NY FDC; 32; Laundry Attendant
Anderson, Robert E. (215605) Cleveland, TN US-
UN-VAT; 65; Retired
Atkisson, John L. (215606) Sparta, WI US-
SWEDEN; 65; Engineer/Business Owner
Austin, Brian (215588) Folkestone, Kent, England
41; Cover Dealer
Baldock, Robert A. (215563) Glasgow, KY
COMMEM; 69; Security
Barry, Robert R. (215584) Topsham, ME 73;
Retired
Bartlett, Gail E. (215665) Sacramento, CA 46
Belk, James W. (215654) Pasadena, TX US; 50; IT
Security Analyst
Bellando, William P. (215607) Camas Valley, OR
WORLDWIDE; 88; Retired
Bergquist, Rollin L. (215564) Golden Valley, MN
US-CANADA; 83; Retired
Berry, Delbert (215589) Shingle Springs, CA
RUSSIA-US-CZECH-AUSTRIA-GER; 86;
Retired
Berthet, Robert R. (215599) New Iberia, LA US-
FRANCE; 47
Bikic, Alberto R. (215565) North Vancouver, BC
CANADA-NZ-US-LATIN AM; 71; Retired
Bishop, Thomas J. (215608) Cape Coral, FL US
COMMEM; 61; Retired
Blasberg, James G. (215641) Bellmawr, NJ
COMMEM-US; 70; Architect
Bodine, Gregory S. (215586) Naperville, IL
WORLDWIDE-US; 47; Teacher
Bolin, Clyde (215663) Somerset, KY GER-UN-
LIECH; 71; Retired
Borntrager, Calvin (215566) Middlebury, IN US
COMMEM, DEFINITIVES; 72; Retired
Brandt, Sierra (J-215568) Merkel, TX
Buda, Jerry (215567) Poughkeepsie, NY US
FEDERAL/JUNIOR DUCK; 56; Utility Employee
Busch, Theodore B. (215590) Barker, NY AIR
MAIL-US; 71
Campos-Zapatero, Orlando A. (215618) Miami, FL
CUBA; 68; CPA
Chaney, Chera (J-215569) Merkel, TX
Cole, Richard G. (215624) Forestville, CA 55;
Attorney
Corman, Thomas (215570) State College, PA US;
71; Retired
Cotton, Vincent J. (215571) McMurray, PA US; 51;
Attorney
Danger, Kathleen A. (215611) White Bear Lake,
MN US; 46; Human Resources
Davis, Brian J. (215614) Amarillo, TX
PHILIPPINES; 30
DeMario, Charles L. (215619) Hubbard, OH PRE
1960 US; 59
Dickson, Annabelle E. (J-215669) Fort Smith, AR
SOCCER-AFRICAN AM; 8
DiMauro, Susan E. (215559) Fonda, NY 61
Dingley, Karen L. (215620) Providence, RI 55
Dowden, Marvin K. (215622) Irmo, SC PLATE
BLKS; 62; Medical Billing Manager
Duester, Joachim (215632) Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt
OMAN-MUSCAT-GWADAR; 54; Diplomat
Dunlap, Tracey (215572) Naples, FL US-MIDDLE
EAST; 47; Registered Nurse
Eakin, Paul (215583) Houston, TX 19TH C US; 54
Eaton, John (215573) Irving, TX US-BRIT; 56;
Retired
Erickson, Robert (215615) Seattle, WA 19TH C
GER STATES; 66
Essig, David L. (215613) Toledo, OH MINT US
SINGLES; 57; Retired
Evans, Josie A. (215638) Boise, ID 25
Farnham, Thomas R. (215642) Charlotte, NC 55;
Retired
Farris, Gary (215626) Riverside, CA US-
WORLDWIDE; 65; Retired
Foster, Theodore W. (215556) Milton, PA 85;
Retired
Frank, Lisa B. (215602) Pittsburgh, PA 47
Fraser, Donald S. (215643) Lake Wales, FL 70;
Retired
Frederick, Brian (215664) Wayne, NJ
WORLDWIDE-US; 41
Garrison, Annette C. (215562) Birmingham, AL 74
Geltmacher, Scott (215659) Spanaway, WA
HISTORICAL; 52; USPS
Gordon, Morris J. (215660) Silver Spring, MD 76;
Retired
Gottscheu, Gord C. (215656) Port Elgin, ON
CANADA 51; Retired
Grigsby, John M. (215574) Toledo,
OR WURTTEMBERG-N GERMAN
CONFEDERATE-ARTWORK-DEAD
COUNTRIES-SOS; 44; Truck Driver
Haaf, Gary (215634) Depew, NY CANAL ZONE; 62
Hand, James (215591) Rochester, NY US-
WORLDWIDE-DEAD COUNTRIES; Pastry Chef
Harvey, Michael (215650) Corvallis, OR 60
Hawkins, George C. (215557) Antioch, TN 19TH C
US; 45; Business Owner
NEW MEMBERS
Applications 215148, 215265 through
215408 as previously published have
been accepted for membership by the
Board of Vice Presidents.
SUMMARY
Total Membership, Feb. 28, 2009 39,975
New Members .............. 145
Reinstated ...................... 23 168
40,143
Disbanded Chapters ......... 1
Deceased ....................... 28
Resignations ................... 79 108
Total Membership, Mar. 31, 2009 40,035
Heil, John C. (215603) Camp Hill, PA US-VAT; 44;
Actuary
Hodsen, Roman (215553) East Hartford, CT US-
POLAND; 58
Hook, David C. (215648) Norfolk, VA 1800’S; 40;
Sales
Johnson, Robert (215592) Colorado Springs, CO
US; 54; Retired
Johnson, William L. (215581) Albuquerque, NM US
PLATE BLKS; 63; Machinist
Jones, Joanna N. (J-215627) Huber Heights, OH
US-HORSES; 12; Student
Jose, Garcia O. (215554) San Juan, PR US; 41;
Controller
Kapralova, Olga (215658) Scottsdale, AZ RUSSIA;
49
Karadjas, George (215635) Amawalk, NY
WORLDWIDE; 53; Hair Stylist
Karpel, John P. (215621) East Haven, CT
CINDERELLAS-US-MEX; 41
Kennedy, Terry (215628) Gardena, CA USED US;
Retired
Kleinle, Mark (215666) Lock Haven, PA US
COMMEM; 56; Retired
Kriz, Michael I. (215630) Moscow, TN US; 54;
Retired
Lamon, David (215593) Appleton, WI MINT US,
SINGLES, BLKS, SHEETS; 68; Retired
Laurie, John K. (215604) New Durham, NH
FALKLAND IS-S ATLANTIC IS-CANADA; 59;
Company Director
Levy, Leon W. (215609) Burlingame, CA US-
ISRAEL; 77; Pharmacist
Licker, Maurice D. (215655) Martinsburg, WV US,
REV; 56; Property Manager
Maselis, Patrick V. (215644) Roeselare, Belgium
BELGIUM-CONGO-SUDAN-NZ; 48; General
Manager
Matz, William R. (215601) Atlanta, GA
CONFEDERATE-US; 57
Mellaraj, Mirselindi (215616) Cleveland, OH 27
Miles, Jeffrey S. (215636) Traverse City, MI US-
GB-EUR; 55; Professor
Mohamed, Nizar F. (215577) Lethbridge, AB E
AFRICA; 66
Montgomery, Ronald E. A. (215661) Toronto, ON
CANADA-US; 74; Retired
Moore, Bradley E. (215610) Palm Bay, FL US
SINGLES, PLATE BLKS; 74; Financial Planner
Morgan, Sandra (215575) West Hartford, CT 65;
Professor
O’Banion, Kay (215576) Meadow Grove, NE
O’Connor, Michael T. (215653) Fortune Bridge, PE
US-CANADA; 55
Palmer, Robert (215645) Bayside, NY 85; Editor/
Indexer
Parker, Leven N. (215600) Evansville, WY US; 28
Phillips, Patrick (215662) Homewood, AL 45
Porche, Earle J. (215558) Metairie, LA US; 65;
Retired
Quashnick, Kyle (215552) Port Ludlow, WA 33
496 Americ An Phil Atelist / May 2009

Reimann, Richard D. (215594) Zimmerman, MN
EARLY MINT US, ERRORS; 68; Retired
Robbins, Thomas R. (215578) Omaha, NE US-
WORLDWIDE; 62; Retired
Rogers-Vaughn, Bruce (215631) Franklin, TN
SLANIA-ENGRAVED; 52; Psychotherapist
Sablatura, David F. (215585) El Campo, TX MINT
US; 48; Contractor
Savage, Don (215646) Savannah, GA US; 56;
Teacher
Schreiber, Scott M. (215652) Wilmington, DE 30;
Chiropractor
Scott, William B. (215629) Bath, SD WORLDWIDE
AIR MAIL-US; 57; Retired
Sellars, John (215668) Coppell, TX US, PLATE
BLKS-CANADA; 63; Retired
Semple, Robert W. (215579) Fort Worth, TX 58;
Banker/Executor
Serigos, Ernesto (215597) Madrid, Spain WWII;
34; Businessman
Siatkowski, Maciej (215633) Gdansk, Poland; 61;
Mechanic
Smith, Erik B. (215667) Missouri City, TX 41;
Government
Smolinski, Meg M. (215617) Washington, DC
WORLDWIDE; 28; Executive Assistant
Spaleta, Edward J. (215649) Astoria, NY 35
Stone, Julian D. (215560) Sherman Oaks, CA AIR
MAIL-ZEPPELIN; 45
Swain, Charles E. (215595) Shelbyville, KY PRE
1940 US-MODERN FDI; 49; Bookkeeper
Sweet, William J. (215657) Mountain Home, AR
US; 73; Retired
Thayer, Richard H. (215580) Altoona, PA 1840-
1940 US; 72; Retired
Thomson, Frederick M. (215647) Menomonee
Falls, WI AUST-SPAIN-PORT-US; 76; Retired
Vachon, Nelson (215651) Salem, CT US-POST
1965 WORLDWIDE; 56; Carpenter
Vaughn, Kelly (215598) Bartlett, TN 30
Vergara, Hans (215639) Leawood, KS MINT US
PLATE BLKS; 42
Walsh, Daniel (215555) New York, NY CYPRUS; 53
Whelpley, James H. (215612) Chester, NJ EUR; 69;
Lifeguard
White, Austin G. (215551) Paulding, OH 19TH C
US; 49; Antique Dealer
Whitehouse, Cale (215596) Chico, CA
Whittemore, Mark (215623) Comfort, TX 44
Willey, Robert W. (215637) Omaha, NE MINT US;
58; Title Abstractor
Wolf, Fred C. (215640) Fort Myers, FL
WORLDWIDE; 64; Retired
Wright, Jeff T. (215625) Williamsport, PA 53; Sales
Wright, Sandra (215582) Dobbs Ferry, NY 46
Zoellin, Robert E. (215561) Grass Valley, CA MINT
US; 51; Driver
Zuercher, Tom L. (215670) Ashland, OH US; 55;
Clergy
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Goldstein, Nathan, II (3786-016085), Amarillo, TX
Gordon, Morris J. (075864), Silver Spring, MD
Harman, Lyle E. (148603), Wellsboro, PA
Hofecker, Jay (142915), Hendersonville, NC
Jackson, Ralph (214911), Owensboro, KY
Leder, Cyril M. (5508-033343), Fenton, MI
Lindauer, Mrs. Syl (5945-044235), Louisville, KY
MacKenzie, Paula C. (214127), Waukegan, IL
Masseo, George P. (104131), White Plains, NY
Metzger, Edmond A. (3177-023988), Springfield, IL
Nelson, James W., Jr. (088074), Milwaukee, WI
Nortum, Rose (5081-032875), Harbor City, CA
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Pierce, Richard M. (172597), Dixfield, ME
Rieder, Robert A. (179841), San Antonio, TX
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Santangelo, Gennaro A. (090478), La Mesa, CA
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Smith, Marvin (166062), Chattanooga, TN
Spitzengel, Gailen L. (109171), Montebello, CA
Szpond, Edward S. (194436), Elizabeth, NY
Turnbull, George W. (187912), Framingham, MA
Vrugtman, Johannes (8470-056929), Midlothian, VA
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5 lines 18.75 101.75 182.00
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7 lines 26.25 142.50 255.00
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9 lines 33.75 183.00 327.50
10 lines 37.50 203.50 364.00
11 lines 42.50 223.75 400.25
To calculate the number of lines your ad will require, figure 34
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and blank spaces between words.
Only APS members may advertise; be sure to include
your APS number. Classified ads are accepted
on a prepaid basis only.
Send your copy and payment to: AP Classifieds,
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New classified ads will be accepted by fax or e-mail if charged
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Please include your card number and expiration date.
Renewals only are accepted by telephone
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Renewal Notice: If (1300) appears after your ad,
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Deadline for the July issue is May 22.
Payment in advance. No change of copy. No refunds.
May 2009 / Americ An Phil Atelist 499

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PHILATELIC BIBLIOPOLE: US, CSA,
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New & Used Philatelic Books
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NEW! AN INDEX TO COLORS IN
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precAncels
PRECANCEL STAMP SOCIETY
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revenues
WORLD REVENUES Buying &
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BEER STAMPS WANTED
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specimen stAmps
SPECIMEN STAMPS of the world
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SHOWGARD BLACK MOUNTS 50%
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WanTed
FOREIGN POSTAL STATIONERY. I
can use almost anything in foreign
postal stationery. Steve Schumann,
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U.S. FREAKS ERRORS. Mike Treister,
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For more information, call Helen 814-933-3818
FOREIGN PERFINS OF ALL
COUNTRIES. Loose stamps,
revenues and on covers. Postage
returned. Kurt Ottenheimer, 462 W.
Walnut St., Long Beach, NY 11561
(1308)
80¢ DIAMOND HEAD C-46 used on
commercial cover or piece – also
sheet PB# 24594 of C-46. Also Pan
Am survey flts and commercial mail
from Pacific 1935-1946. Krupnick
700 SE 3 rd Ave Ft. Lauderdale FL
33316 jonpac@aol.com (1303)
METER STAMP COLLECTIONS. All
countries and periods. Prompt offer,
prompt payment. Rick Stambaugh,
613 Old Corlies Ave, Neptune NJ
07753. riikstambaugh@yahoo.com
(1303)
WORLD PRE-1930 highest prices
paid Postal History Stationery:
Postal letter cards & envelopes
mint used, SON cancels, Olympics
anything, postal use labels & private
prints, Expo Air-Mail, Revenues,
foreign post offices abroad any
country, exchange vis-à-vis equal
basis, NH stamps Postal History
Pre-1950 Europe, BR/Colonies,
Canada, USA. S.C., BP 864 Succ
B’, Montreal, Que H3B-3K5, Canada
(1304)
1st US NAVY SQD’N Flight S/F to
HAWAII 1/10/34 1st MASS FLIGHT
SAN DIEGO to PEARL HARBOR
1/28/37 Fam-14 & Fam-19 Trans
Pacific Flight Covers 1935 to 1945
Ernest Wheeler 7 Evelyn Terrace
Wayne N.J. 07470 (1303)
MINT SETS, SINGLES, over $30. Pre
1955 Albania, Bulgaria, Romania,
Russia, Turkey, also Foreign Offices.
CP 864 Succ B’ Montreal Que. H3B-
3K5 (1310)
MINKUS - GHANA COUNTRY
ALBUM. No stamps just album
or complete pages to early 1960s
A.Serio 11703 Mohr Rd., Kingsville,
MD 21087 tserio@comcast.net
(1300)
WholeSale
WHOLESALE PER 10: complete,
mint, topical sets at 15 to
18% of Scott. See our website
morvilletrading.com and ask for
our price list. Morville Trading, P.O.
Box 73066 San Clemente, CA
92673. Fax (949) 498-6706 Email
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index of advertisers
Academy Stamp Co. 495
George Alevizos 486
Antonios-Philatelics 495
Earl P.L. Apfelbaum, Inc. 477
APS Education Courses &
Summer Seminar 436, 444
APS Insurance Plan 456
APS Internet Sales 478
APS Sales Division
C7
APS StampCruise 2010 C8
APS StampShow 2009 C4
Argyll Etkin, Limited 482
Frank Bachenheimer 495
Bellmore Philatelics 441
Matthew Bennett International 492
Brookman/Barrett & Worthen 483
Century Stamps 435
Douglas N. Clark, APS
Treasurer Candidate 432
The Classic Collector 494
Collins First Day Covers 482
Colonial Stamp Co. 493
Columbian Stamp Co. Inc. 495
Confederate Stamp Alliance 493
Crown Colony Stamps 489
Cyberstamps 432
Dale Enterprises 489
H.J.W. Daugherty 495
Davidson’s Stamp Service 495
Delcampe International C2
Eastern Auctions Ltd. 485
Michael Eastick 495
The Excelsior Collection 422
F & J Collectibles 495
FLOREX 2009 495
Franke Stamps 495
Richard Friedberg Stamps 493
Dr. Robert Friedman
Stamp Company 420–421
Henry Gitner Philatelists, Inc. 416
Brian & Maria Green, Inc. 490
Aron R. Halberstam Philatelists,
Ltd. 488
Harmers of London 455
H.R. Harmer, Inc./
Nutmeg Stamp Sales 413
Heritage Auction Galleries Inc. C5
Hungaria Stamp Exchange 494
Ideal Stamp/Sam Malamud 492
interasia auctions limited 485
Interstamp 495
Eric Jackson 490
Kay & Company 493
Daniel F. Kelleher Co., Inc. 429
Kristal Kare, Inc. 488
James E. Lee 483
Legion Stamps, Inc./Have
Tongs Will Travel
C6
Richard Lehmann 494
Robert Lippert 490
Gary J. Lyon (Philatelist) Ltd. 503
Steve Malack 487
James T. McCusker, Inc. 495
MONACOPHIL 2009 423
Mountainside Stamps 434
J R Mowbray Ltd 495
Lawrence Mozian 495
Muscott’s 430
Mystic Stamp Company 491
Gregg Nelson Stamps 495
New England Stamp 495
Newfoundland Specialized
Stamp Catalogue 489
Northwestern Philatelic
Auctions, Inc. 487
Palo Albums, Inc. 446
Paradise Valley Stamp Co., Inc. 489
Penny Black Stamp Co. 493
Philasearch.com 486
Philaton 495
Richard Pyznar 493
Quality Stamps 433
Rasdale Stamp Co. 490
RCS Stamps 492
Regency/Superior 409
RUBBER STAMPS 495
Rupp Brothers 415
Sam Houston Duck Co. 486
Sandafayre, Ltd. 439
Saskatoon Stamp Centre 492
SCDB Software, Inc./The Stamp
Collectors Data Base, Inc. 492
Jacques C., Schiff, Jr., Inc. 487
Schmitt Investors, Ltd. 428
Scott A. Shaulis 495
The Stamp Center/Dutch
Country Auctions 447
StampExpo400 488
Stamps Inc. 492
StampWants.com 484
Subway Stamp Shop, Inc. 417
Stephen T. Taylor 494
TNC Enterprises/
AP Dustcovers 490
Antonio M. Torres 493
Tropical Stamps, Inc. 493
Vance Auctions, Ltd. 489
E.S.J. van Dam Ltd. 495
Varisell 434
WAP Württembergisches
Auktionshaus Postwertzeichen
GmbH 419
W. Danforth Walker, APS
Treasurer Candidate 431
The Washington Press 434
Westminster Stamp
Gallery, Ltd. 490
Edward D. Younger Co.
424–425, 426–427
ZillionsofStamps.com/Amos
Hobby Publishing/Linn’s
Stamp News/Scott 443
Steven Zwillinger, APS
Secretary Candidate 434, 495
May 2009 / Americ An Phil Atelist 501

u.s. new issues
Koi!
On April 17, 2009, in New York,
New York (Spring Postage Stamp
Mega Event), the Postal Service
issued a 28-cent, Koi stamped card in
two designs. This newest stamp product
in the American Scenes series features
colorful carp know as koi. Many Americans
collect koi, prizing these large freshwater
fish for their bold, bright colors in
striking combinations and patterns. The
stamp art is by Kam Mak, Brooklyn, New
York, who left Hong Kong as a child and
grew up in New York City’s Chinatown.
He based his paintings on photographs
he made of koi.
The Koi stamped cards are available
in the following formats: Singlecut
cards, Double-cut reply cards, and a
Sheet of 40 cards.
Denomination: 28-cent Stamped Card
(a) Format: Single-cut Cards
Series: American Scenes
Designer/Art Director/Typographer:
Ethel Kessler, Bethesda, MD
Artist: Kam Mak, Brooklyn, NY
Modeler: Joseph Sheeran
Manufacturing Process: Offset
Printer: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.,
Williamsville, NY
Press Type: Stevens, Vari-size Security
Press
Paper Type: Nonphosphored Type III,
Block
Colors: Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow
Image Orientation: Horizontal
Size (w x h): 139.70 x 88.90 mm (card)
Marginal Markings: ©2009 USPS;
Recycled logo followed by “recycled”
(b) Format: Double-cut Reply Cards
Size (w x h): 139.70 x 177.80 mm (card)
(c) Format: Sheet of 40 Cards
Printer: Sterling Sommer, Tonawanda, NY
Press Type: Heidelberg, Speedmaster
Polar Bear
On April 16, 2009, in New York,
New York (Spring Postage Stamp Mega
Event), the Postal Service issued a 28-
cent, Polar Bear definitive stamp in one
design in a pressure-sensitive adhesive
pane of 20 stamps.
This stamp features a polar bear by
illustrator Nancy Stahl, who has created
several designs for the Postal Service including
the Florida Panther in 2007 and
the Dragonfly in 2008. This stamp shows
the bear’s head, chest, and front paws,
and in the background is a dark blue sky
dotted with stars. Stahl used a collection
of photographs to create this highly stylized
illustration.
The Polar Bear stamp is available in
the following formats: PSA Pane of 20
and PSA Coil of 100.
Denomination: 28-cent Definitive
(a) Format: Pane of 20 (1 design)
Designer/Art Director/Typographer:
Carl T. Herrman, Carlsbad, CA
Artist: Nancy Stahl, New York, NY
Modeler: Donald Woo
Manufacturing Process: Offset,
Microprinting, “USPS”
Printer: Banknote Corporation of America/
SSP, Browns Summit, NC
Press Type: Alprinta, 74
Paper Type: Phosphor Tagged, Overall
Adhesive Type: Pressure-sensitive
Colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black
Stamp Orientation: Vertical
Sizes (w x h): 18.54 x 21.34 mm (image);
22.10 x 24.94 mm (overall); 134.62 x
123.95 mm (pane)
502 Americ An Phil Atelist / May 2009

Plate Numbers: “S” followed by
4 single digits
Marginal Markings: Front: ©2009 USPS;
Price; Plate numbers in 4 corners of
pane; Plate position diagram. Back:
USPS logo; Barcodes 113100 in 4
corners of pane.
(b) Format: Coil of 100 (1 design)
Modeler: Avery Dennison, SPD
Manufacturing Process: Gravure
Engraver: Keating Gravure
Printer: Avery Dennison (AVR),
Clinton, SC
Press Type: Dia Nippon Kiko (DNK)
Paper Type: Prephosphored, Type II
Colors: Yellow, Magenta, Yellow, Cyan,
Black, Blue
Plate Numbers: “V” followed by 5 single
digits
Marginal Markings: Plate numbers on
every 20th stamp in coil
Richard Wright
On April 9, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois,
the Postal Service issued a 61-cent,
Richard Wright commemorative stamp
in one design in a pressure-sensitive adhesive
pane of 20 stamps (Item 113000).
With this 25th stamp in the Literary
Arts series, the USPS honors author
Richard Wright (1909–1960). Best
remembered for his controversial 1940
novel, Native Son, and 1945 autobiography,
Black Boy, Wright drew on a wide
range of literary traditions, including
protest writing and detective fiction, to
craft unflinching portrayals of racism in
American society.
The stamp artwork by Kadir Nelson,
San Diego, California, features a portrait
of Richard Wright in front of snowswept
tenements on the South Side of
Chicago, a scene that recalls the setting
of Native Son. Nelson’s portrait of Wright
was based on a circa 1945 photograph.
Denomination: 61-cent Commemorative
Format: Pane of 20 (1 design)
Series: Literary Arts
Designer/Art Director/Typographer:
Carl T. Herrman, Carlsbad, CA
Artist: Kadir Nelson, San Diego, CA
Modeler: Joseph Sheeran
Manufacturing Process: Offset,
Microprinting, “USPS”
Printer: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.,
Williamsville, NY
Press Type: Mueller Martini, A76
Paper Type: Nonphosphored, Type III,
Block Tag applied
Adhesive Type: Pressure-sensitive
Colors: Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Gray,
Yellow
Stamp Orientation: Horizontal
Sizes (w x h): 36.07 x 21.34 mm (image);
39.62 x 24.89 mm (overall); 183.90 x
151.13 mm (pane)
Plate Numbers: “P” followed by 6 single
digits
Marginal Markings: Front: ©2008 USPS;
Header “Literary Arts 25th in a series”;
Plate position diagram; Price “$0.61
x 20 = $12.20”; Plate numbers in four
positions. Back: USPS logo; Descriptive
text on back of each stamp; Barcode
113000 in two positions.
May 2009 / Americ An Phil Atelist 503

worldwide in a nutshell
by bob lamb
Republic of Finland
Status: Republic in northern Europe
Area: 130,160 sq mi
Population: 5,250,275 (est. 2009)
Currency: 100 cents = 1 euro (about US$1.45)
Finland is believed to have been settled by tribes from central Asia. Its
language is Uralic rather than Indo-European, with Lapp and Estonian
its only significant close linguistic kin in Europe. Finland’s
nearly 700-year association with Sweden
began in the middle of the twelfth century
with Swedish efforts to spread Christianity.
Sweden’s continued expansion led to Finland’s
annexation, Westernization, and, in
1556, its establishment as a Grand Duchy
of Sweden — a status it maintained until
the Napoleonic Wars.
At the beginning of the eighteenth
century, Sweden’s status as a world power
began to wane as Russia’s rose. Although
there were some signs of discontent with
Swedish rule, the Czar’s efforts to court the Finns were unsuccessful.
In 1809 Napoleon, who was angry that Sweden would not
join the Continental Blockade of England, encouraged Czar Alexander
I to attack Sweden and annex Finland. For five months,
12,000 Finns held back 60,000 Russian troops, but in the end they
were forced to give way. The Swedes, who at that point saw Stockholm itself
threatened, agreed to surrender Finland.
To many Finns, the abdication of the Czar in 1917 broke their governmental
link with Russia, and the Finns declared their independence, which
the Bolsheviks recognized. But independence was not fully achieved until the
resolution of a brief but bitter civil war. Finland fought another war with the
Soviet Union during the winter of 1939–40 and a limited continuation war
from 1941–44. Finland’s determined defense against the Russians probably
thwarted Stalin’s plans to make it a Soviet Republic.
A general postal service was established in 1638. Finland introduced the
postage stamp in 1856, before Russia itself. Fearing that growing Finnish nationalism
eventually would spawn an independence movement, Alexander
III introduced a period of Russification. As one of these measures the Finnish
postal system was taken over by the Russian Ministry of the Interior. This
change is evident in designs in the issue of 1891. In December 1917 Finnish
stamps with the coat of arms of the Republic reappeared. The Finnish government
has continued to issue stamps imprinted Suomi / Finland ever since.